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...comedian is W. C. Fields, hitherto chiefly known as a smasher of cigar boxes. He existed for several seasons on weekly allowances, from Florenz Ziegfeld in return for certain comic contributions to the Follies. His pool game, his golf game, his juggling were classic. He seldom spoke. Now he too has opened his mouth. He is promptly promoted to our first families of funny...
Journalism from a business viewpoint means giving the public what it is interested in. What does the public like best to read ? It is seldom that even a partial answer can be set down definitely in black and white. The Chicago Daily Tribune, which leads Chicago newspapers in circulation, made known the following figures...
...knows just how his public will react to a play. Will they be conscious of the fundamental tragedy of Home Fires or will they, as in Icebound, find more of the comic than the tragic and go away feeling warmly amused ? It is hard to tell. Personally, I have seldom laughed so hard in any theatre as over a scene in which two youngsters seated on a front porch discuss eugenics. What a chance there was for burlesque-and how truly, safely and amusingly Mr. Davis has handled this scene. Mr. Davis' rescue from the ranks of melodrama...
Music will have a healthier growth when musicianship is generally recognized as a sensible and well paying profession, and pupils go to study with the feeling that they are making their way to a secure living rather than with toplofty visions of artistic transcendence and starvation. The organists, while seldom riding in the sunlight of popular acclaim, represent one of the soundest phases of American music. There is a large demand throughout the country for good organists for church positions. The pay is not vast, but it is steady. There is a better and surer living in organ playing than...
...down together. The constitution of the Woodstock Association provides that the board of directors shall always be equally divided between the radical and conservative groups. Such well-known academicians as Birge Harrison, John F. Carlson, Eugene Speicher preserve a balance against the incursions of modernism. The Woodstock people are seldom extremists, but the majority are clearly under the influence of the newer currents. Of the names which stand out, Henry Lee McFee, with his solid and colorful Portrait of a Painter; Andrew Dasburg, with a landscape of New Mexico pueblos; George Bellows, with a group of striking drawings and lithographs...