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...Lampoon's tradition is one of free speech, to the point of libel if need be. In 1925 its artist parodied Washington Crossing the Delaware so daringly that an issue of the Lampoon was barred from the U. S. mails. But the anti-Harkness issue seemed to transcend all Lampoon offenses against good taste and sense, and the reason for this seemed to be that the matter in hand was, for once, serious and tangible...
...latest of his pot-boiling series of-so-called investigations of representative American college existence, Mr. Kenneth L. Roberts '07, burlesque artist extraordinary, has succeeded in arousing Harvard--or at least the editors of the Harvard Crimson--to hot indignation and to a vigorous, if not too clever, denial of his interpretation of student life at Cambridge. This, we imagine, is just what Mr. Roberts wanted. It would even seem to strengthen a few of the points at which he has been at such pains to whale away with his heavy bludgeon of journalistic humor...
...Roberts is not a master of vituperation; he is certainly no artist at caricature. He is merely a good reporter with a sure nose for what will amuse the Saturday Post reading public, and a genius for writing syncopated prose what catches their attention...
...bore persons familiar with Wall Street methods is unlikely, however, for Mrs. Wolf's infidelities are effectively and seductively acted by Olga Baclanova. Best shot : Miss Baclanova biting her honey's ear. Olga Baclanova has the best singing voice in the cinema business. Her father, a Moscow artist, used to let her watch rehearsals of the Little Theatre there when she was ten years old. When she was 16 she was one of four chosen out of 400 applicants for admission to the Moscow Art Theatre Musical Studio. Morris Gest brought...
...savage splendor and Tchaikovsky wrote: &"As for Moussorgsky's music, it can go to the devil for all I care - it is a low, vile parody of the real thing." Came Khovantchina, The Fair at Sorotchintzy, The Marriage, miscellaneous cho ruses, compositions for piano, for orchestra. The artist grew but the man lost money, friends, reputation. When at 42, he died, it was alone, in a hospital, of delirium tremens. Then was he first hailed as a giant, then was his monument erected in the public square. Now, 50 years later, musical people find him increasingly important...