Word: soul
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...SEVEN LIVELY ARTS?Gilbert Seldes?Harper ($4.00). This annoying but pertinent book would persuade one that slapstick comedy, jazz music, comic strips and Ring Lardner are the most worth-while contemporary revelations of the soul of America, and that the Krazy Kat cartoons are "the most satisfactory work of art produced in America today." Mr. Seldes, whose present occupation is the more unexpected in that he is known as a critic of the major arts, here takes up the cudgels in behalf of the so-called "lowbrow" products...
Expressing Willie. Willie, 40-year-old bachelor, has made so much money out of toothpaste that he has leisure to discover he has a soul which also needs polishing. At his Long Island home radiant male and female butterflies foment his yearnings, having ideals to exchange for free board and lodging. Willie's old- fashioned mother sets them all down as parasites and summons Willie's boyhood sweetheart from the Middle West in the hope of once more striking a responsive chord...
...first this young woman (a music teacher) is gauche, inept, stumbling amid polished floors and brilliant conversation. Astonishingly she sprouts wings. One talk with an aesthetic artist, and she decides to liberate her soul with a thump on the keyboard. She tosses off her inhibitions and a Chopin scherzo simultaneously. Result?she walks off with the fascinated Willie from under the very nose of a voluptuous vampire. It is a tribute to the power of ten-finger exercises...
...becomes an engineer, an architect, finds himself driven to things against which his soul rebels, by the concrete and somehow sordid need for money. Fortunately, his wife concentrates on the financial, and thus does not drain him spiritually dry. So he retains his inner self, which continues to wrestle with the problem of adjusting things as they are with what he feels they ought...
Died. Marie Corelli, 60, at Stratford-on-Avon; author of best sellers for 40 years: The Sorrows of Satan, The Murder of Delicia, Problem of a Wicked Soul, God's Good Man, The Devil's Motor, The Secret Power, etc., etc. She was of mixed Italian and Scotch Highland blood, was adopted in infancy by Charles Mackay, famed song writer, who afterwards sent her to a French convent to be educated. Queen Victoria admired her work; Tennyson wrote her a letter of encouragement...