Word: mannering
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Dean Pound, accepting the portrait for the Law School, spoke of the three branches of the law, the judging, teaching, and practicing. He praised Justice Holmes as having acted in all three capacities in a laudable manner...
...BOHEME, made in Italy by Italian singers, the Scala Chorus and the Milan Symphony conducted by Lorenzo Molajoli (Columbia, $26)-One of the most satisfying of opera releases. Soprano Rosetta Pampanini (Mimi) and Tenor Luigi Marini (Rodolfo) sing in the approved Italian manner. The recording is excellent...
...best-seller by Justin Huntly McCarthy, Dennis King acts a Villon who becomes King of France for seven days, saves Paris from its enemies and wins the hand of his true love, Louis XI's niece. Although the entire cast, including King, caricatures the parts in the familiar cinematic manner, and although there are painful moments when the immortal Villon must recite dreadful verses organized for him by Hollywood hack writers, The Vagabond King is high-spirited and good-looking enough to be fair entertainment. Best shot: Villon's jailbird army mobilizing to defend the city...
Mencken thinks polytheism still rears its many heads. "The God of the Episcopalians is an elderly British peer, courtly in manner, somewhat beefy, and, in New York, vaguely Jewish. The God of the Mormons shaves his upper lip, and believes in large families and a protective tariff. The God of the Methodists is an agent pro-vacateur, forever fingering his pad of blank warrants. The God of the Baptists is amphibious, and, in some of his aspects, almost identical with the Neptune of the Greeks...
...Significance. H.L. Mencken is admired for his tickling wit, not for his uncomforting, uncomfortable common sense. His skepticism, shared tacitly by an intelligent minority of U.S. citizens, he voices in so vigorous and individual a manner that it can be laughed off by many who secretly agree with him. "No one will deny, I take it, that we owe the Rockefeller Institute, at least in part, to certain purely theological tremors in the donor. . . . However . . . this is really not an argument in favor of religion; it is simply an argument against the human race." The U.S. has no Established Church...