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...Monkey Talks. From France a play of circus life came, saw and only partly conquered. The monkey is a man who apes the ape and fools the public in the sawdust ring. So astonishingly authentic are his make-up and his gestures that the play is at once credible. For this all credit to Jacques Lerner, French actor imported for the role...
Paul Whiteman, expansive Lord High Conductor of U. S. jazz, last week repressed his exuberant instruments heroically. He calmed the mourning, muted trumpet, put brakes on the slide trombone, and made them all tell stories. One story was written by Deems Taylor, jazz-appreciating classicist ? the story of circus day in a one-cylinder town. The other story went deeper, or bravely tried to. It was by rhapsodic George Gershwin, to whom jazz comes as readily as a new suit to a chamelon. It was of a murder in a Harlem speakeasy: love, passion, hate and a dark...
...innumerable topics with amazing facility," and that he was, as advertised, "WISE, WHIMSICAL, EDUCATIONAL, HELPFUL," there were some who wondered whether his all-embracing wisdom did not permit him to detect the offense proffered to his personal dignity and to his cloth by the ill taste of that circus-barker advertisement...
...artists of the last 100 years were opened to the public last week by the National Academy of Design, Man- hattan. From Samuel F. B. Morse's portrait of the aged Marquis de Lafayette to George W. Bellows' famed "Club Night," the trim parade moves on. No circus procession, this, but the orderly march of a club of oddfellows in plain clothes. Here and there moves a strong or vivid figure† Sargent Bellows or Pennell† but the exhibit gave critics an opportunity to point out once more that the art of an enterprising commercial century...
...brutal show of beer and brawn. They like the game. It is good to watch. Besides, it makes for unity within colleges and for friendship between different crowds of men in different colleges. The only trouble with it, they suggest, is that the game has become a circus. Perhaps, judging from the resolutions they agreed upon, this does justice to their way of thinking: "We're not in college to be grinds: but we are in college, after all, to sharpen our wits and live not entirely on the sporting pages and acquire a sense of proportion about life...