Word: victorians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nordic nudes dominated the show, with many busts and figures of Mussolini and Critic Hitler thrown in for good political measure. The most competent of this art (like the innocuously pleasant white Aryan nude of No. 1 Reich Sculptor Josef Thorak) would not have disgraced a high-class Victorian barroom of the 18905. The worst of it, resplendent with heiling storm troopers and Prussian eagles, would have looked well in a 1940 beer hall...
...London young Deodato, escaped from friarhood, seeks his lost identity, gets involved in a slummy, fancy piece of Victorian poisoning, yearns for the beautiful young woman, and exposes himself to some of the deadliest mid-19th-Century slang to be found in any 20th-century novel...
When the Second Mrs. Tanqueray was originally presented, it shocked Victorian audiences out of their buttoned boots. The play pointed up the fact that a lady can't roll in the hay and then expect to live in the manor. Although Sir Arthur Wing Pinero laced his drama with many a tight homily and saw to it that his Paula's past caught up with her in the end, the uniform reaction of audiences was one of shocked disapproval. Produced during the same year in London and New York, the Second Mrs. Tanqueray inspired much pulpitation, was condemned...
...Others beside Producer Cochran were put out. Of 43 theatres in London, all but 14 were dark, and even among the few plays still on the boards some teetered desperately on the brink. One walloping success of which the West End could boast was the hiss-the-villain Victorian cabaret, "Ridgeway's Late Joys," put on with beer and hot dogs at the Players' Theatre, atop an old five-story house near Covent Garden...
Loudest, firmest protester was Boston's eight-month-old Society for Sanity in Art (youngest branch of Chicago's famed organization of similar name), which found an opportunity for its maiden crusade. Last week, from the black-upholstered fastness of her Victorian apartment, the Society's old-maid president, Margaret Fitzhugh Browne, said: "[The Picasso show] is an exhibition of crazy stuff. People who went to the show flocked to join the Society for Sanity in Art." She affirmed the Society's answer to Picasso's challenge: a rival exhibition demonstrating sane...