Word: tone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lucius Goldberg astounded the newspaper trade by suddenly abandoning the grotesquely exaggerated pictorial humor which had made him rich & famed. In place of the hilarious daily strip which the McNaught Syndicate was happily selling far & wide, "Rube" Goldberg offered a serious, human-interest character named Doc Wright, similar in tone but not in inspiration to Gasoline Alley's benign Walt Wallet. Within ten months, the solemn doings of Doc Wright were beginning to bore Artist Goldberg as much as they did many a reader. Though Doc Wright still appeared in more than zoo papers, independently wealthy Artist Goldberg quit...
...only objection one could find to "Carnival in Flasders" is that there are traces of drama in the beginning which mislead one, for the whole thing turns into high comedy. Jacques Feyder's direction is well paced and takes full advantage of every situation, but the semi-serious tone of the first few scenes leaves one unprepared for the satire to follow. On retrospection, Madame Burgomaster's harangue, "Femmes! Femmes! Our men have failed us!" is seen as a keen stroke of burlesque, but at the time it looks like drama overdone. This is but a minor fault...
...cream of the Boston concerts, Dr. Koussevitsky has made an unusually fine program for the Second Sanders Theatre Symphony concert to be held tonight. Stravinsky's orchestral music for the ballet 'Lo Baiser do la Fee" is the opening number, and is to be followed by Strauss's tone poem, "Don Juan", and Sibelius's Fifth Symphony. All three of these have been written within the last fifty years--the first in 1928 and the last in 1889--and their composers are still alive, but there is a world of difference between them. Only Stravinsky can be classed...
Meanwhile U. S. correspondents arriving in Ipswich were fascinated alike by the innocence of the local citizenry and the naughty talk of lawyers down from London. The latter's conversations were flavored with much the tone of a poem some of them read with gusto to one another from the current London New Statesman and Nation. Excerpts...
...goes Mrs. Asquith's head again!" The different angles from which the affair is viewed show an interesting cross-section. The church may look down its nose, and the Boston American may strike new heights of photographic grandeur, but the attitude of a Leverett House goodie has the wistful tone we like best. In commenting upon the horror of it all to one of her "patients," she said, "You never know what's coming next these days. When I think of it I'm scared to get into my bathtub...