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...these meagre details the Daily Mail added a sarcastic comment that it would not risk printing a picture of Comedian Chaplin, lest this constitute a legal breach...
Intermezzo's libretto, based on personal spats seldom so openly revealed, will cause some shrugging of shoulders, some sharper comment. Those who question the taste of such autobiography forget, possibly, that the world left him poor while he was creating some of its richest musical treasure; that publishers kept him whistling in the outer offices with immortal compositions grasped in numb fingers; that critics derided when first he wore his heart on his sleeve; that such experiences leave strange marks on sensitive natures...
...been the object of the editors to use the possibilities in the way indicated and often the results have been gratifying. Without, however, a wide knowledge of the reactions of their public, the progress has been somewhat in the dark. It is the purpose of this editorial to invite comment from the readers of the BOOKSHELF. The editors will be grateful for the recommendations of particular books: but they desire suggestions which bear on the general plan of the undertaking. To the extent that responses do this, they will clarify what otherwise must remain very indefinite reasoning on the part...
...statues, called him the "Walt Whitman of Sculp-ture." The Philadelphia Inquirer gave him a page of its magazine section one Sunday ("Glorifying America's Workingmen in Bronze and Marble") and the Literary Digest wrote in lively style of an "exhibition of sculpture, now stirring considerable comment, both...
...matter of fact, there was little comment con, and less pro, if by comment is meant competent critical appraisal of the work of Mr. Kalish. His structural steel workers, choppers, diggers, pourers, are handled with the respect due to big muscles, energy and the artistic principles of the late Auguste Rodin. To use the means with which Rodin got at metaphysical truth, the forces behind men and women, figures erect and hazardously separated from the earth that put life in them-to use this means for reproducing, as by a good magazine illustration, the overalled figures of U. S. industry...