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...Good Humor In Exhibition

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OLD REPRODUCTIONS ON VIEW | 3/1/1927 | See Source »

Only in the Tintoret and in one of the Rubens is there a suggestion of a purely academic point of view. But in these, no such effort is required to translate them into good humor as is the case with the drawings of the weignty School of Michelangelo. We believe that the good humor is carried through the entire exhibition, through the chiaroscurists Guardi, Tiepolo, Poussin, and Rembrandt, through the lyricism of Corot, through the tortures of Grnenewald, to culminate in pure humer in Breughel. Pisanelio may seem, at first thought, to be purely nonsensical, but with longer inspection...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OLD REPRODUCTIONS ON VIEW | 3/1/1927 | See Source »

...mind, has either been completely extinguished or badly dampened in the sudden jump to Boston's early spring. Some of the acts had distinct possibilities but they never seemed to materialize. Also most of them were executed so crudely that it required some effort to be overcome by their humor. The exception was an operatic version of a sixteenth century "pick up" in the best New Yorkese of the twentieth century. Johnny Dooley carried off the comedy honors in this, and the singing was by far the best of the evening. Another Dooley production, his strong man act, was quite...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER PAGE | 2/24/1927 | See Source »

...this one. I think the King furnished his quota of humor with the following...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Rogers-Brisbane Version | 2/21/1927 | See Source »

...spirit is a group of four choruses from Gilbert and Sullivan's "Patience". Music, it has been said, is the most emotional of the arts, but the emotion of laughter has perhaps never been so well expressed as when Sir Arthur Sullivan succeeded in incorporating in his melodies the humor of Gilbert's words...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 2/17/1927 | See Source »

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