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...reciter of our forefathers ? the reciter magnificent ? the lady of the awe-inspring brow and grave yard contralto who tore The Raven to tatters on the slightest provocation, the cadaverous youth who was so comic delivering Farmer Corn-tassel at the County Fair ? these, with the hansom-cab-driver and the professor of penmanship who drew little birds with flowing scrolls in their beaks, are rapidly passing into oblivion. Alas...
...criticisms seem to be called for. The first is general. Although many of the line cuts, such as the unsigned comic heading for the contents on page 4, are cleverly executed, on the whole the drawings are amateurish, and some are conspicuously inadequate. The reviewer is plunged into gloom by the dismal title page which introduces him to the subject of scholarships (page 237), and the headings for pages 194 and 198 are clumsily drawn. Not that artistic talent is unusually lacking in the class of 1926, for on the whole the cuts in this book are at least...
James Swinnerton is known to readers of Mr. Hearst's papers as the cartoonist who draws the comic strips that deal with the adventures of "Little Jimmy...
...Columbia Burlesque management has anything to say about it, the over-bushy crepe hair and elaborate "comic" make-up will no longer befriend comedians on the Columbia wheel. The Columbia solons declare that their funny men in future must depend on their own ability rather than on greasepaint and artificial bald-spots. Drastic...
...most of the numbers. There are sentimental songs that provide harmonies, such as "My Old Man", and "My Red Rose". While they bring applause they are not bright sports in the production. "I'm the Sheriff" is an amusingly staged number, where nimble dancing and grotesque posturing brings comic effects...