Word: tabloidism
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...modern world takes much of its intellectual nourishment from these periodicals--literary and philosophical small-try, as is natural in a "tabloid" age. Newspapers, but more especially magazines, are the cultural equivalents of the quick-lunch counter, and the CRIMSON feels that at Harvard, where digestion of learning should be orderly, and the rations well-balanced, there is much need of a menu for magazines. Aside from the fecundity of the Ballyhoo magazines, the growth of periodicals has been alarming, making life hectic for the student who would be well-read in the modern world, and hard for the graduate...
Word that typewriters, revolver shots and police sirens would concatenate in Carnegie Hall, last week drew a crowd unaccustomed to entering Manhattan's most formal music house. Theatre folk, songwriters and newspapermen flocked to hear tabloid Paul Whiteman (126 Ib. thinner than he used to be) play Tabloid. It had been written for him by his oldtime orchestrator, squat, baldish Ferde Grofé who now runs the Grofé Realty Co. in Teaneck...
Newspapermen knew that Grofé had been persuaded to write Tabloid by his friend George Clarke, restless, hard-driving city editor of the New York Daily Mirror. Grofé visited the Mirror offices, devised a scenario which called for typewriters to click out hectically the routine news of the day, for a harp to represent the society editor calling for a copyboy, for a big bass horn to bellow like the managing editor. A sob sister had her maudlin, banal bit. Piccolos and traps described the comic-strip antics of Mickey Mouse. Revolver shots expressed murder headlines. Drums drummed...
...down in an unemployed demonstration. The daughter lives in sin with her bank clerk. The son, jailed for stealing a little coal, joins a street-corner meeting in which a policeman is killed. He is convicted of the murder and hanged, largely because of his radical opinions. Other scenes tabloid black-hearted iron tycoons, grimy politicians, venal judges, rich diplomats. Written strongly and at the top of its lungs, broadly directed by Author Rice, excellently cast, We, the People is an evening of violent excitement, crude theatre...
...problem of the custody of the child of a divorced or aspirated couple; this is a predicament common enough, yet little discussed on the stage, and it would in the proper hands adapt itself to masterly treatment. In "Blonde Venus" this theme is ruined by lurid, florid, tabloid handing which carries the mother from the arms of her Husband, to stardom in a revue, to prostitution, to stardom in a revue, to prostitution, to stardom in a revue, and with the leit motif of "a little child shall lead them," back to the arms of her husband. The whole amounts...