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...leader, will give a performance at the Shubert Theatre this afternoon at 3 o'clock for the benefit of the American Friends of Musicians in France and the Municipal School of Music at Rheims. Among other numbers will be John Alden Carpenter's jazz-pantomime "Krazy Kat" after the cartoon of that name. Mr. Bolm has acquired prominence by his work in the Imperial Russian Ballet and has won considerable success in this country for his performances of "Coq d'Or" and "Petrouchka" with the Metropolitan Opera Company of New York...
...cannot help wondering if the "New Republic" is expressing the opinion of unbiased thinkers in the country today. One would not suspect to find so conventional an attitude in so Promethean a periodical. The reviewer has apparently excavated the pre-historic, absent-minded professor from the joke column and cartoon page and shipped him intact to Harvard...
...four full-page illustrations deserve comment, the best of these undoubtedly being "Smith's America of 1616," a unique map conceived by S. P. Moorehead '22. The cartoon about the "Drive Closed," for which Merwin and McCord are responsible, hardly belongs, as yet, in an American History Number, but the clever idea it embodies more than offsets its momentary inappropriateness. Altogether, the newest Lampoon maintains its usual standard of excellence while in no way distinguishing itself by any extraordinary offering at the jester's feet...
...answer is that Americans have little respect for the law; we are the world's greatest example of cheerful criminals. There is a grim seriousness in a cartoon which appears in "Collier's" over the caption: "If everybody is going to play on the other side, it's too much to expect anyone to be enthusiastic about being 'It'." We see a crowd of American citizens rushing madly over a lone policeman; the members of the assemblage can be identified by numerous placards: "tax dodgers," "home brew," "anything is legal if you can get by," "gentlemanly violators of contracts," "unlawful...
...most important drawing is one by Antonio Pollaiuolo; a part of the painter's cartoon for his engraving of "The Battle of Naked Men." This exhibit offers a rare opportunity to see this masterly drawing of human figures. The exhibition will continue until April...