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Eddie Cantor maintains that a humorist needs a sympathetic audience before be will venture new tricks. Can this account for the even sameness of Irish spirit which pervades the magazine? Certainly there is no boldness there, and even the Irish jokes have been diluted with un-Irish college humor, Lampoon variety, which seems quite out of place against the dull emerald background. The whole presents the appearance of a catalogue of sure-fire "Pat and Mikes" for the ten-twenty-thirty vaudeville performance...
...gloss the deformity that twitched in the minds of those he saw, revealed by an expression, a turn of a head, an angle of a body? He painted with the bitter, malign mastery of a superb satirist. His three chef-d'?uvres?Le Moulin Rouge, Femme dans un Atelier, La Pierreuse?were included in the Manhattan exhibit...
...best that I have heard is un- doubtedly the Philadelphia; but the Philharmonic runs it close. The Boston is evidently in a transition stage. With its American tradition of long-term conductors it is bound to take a little time to give itself up entirely to a new spirit; but if it is fortunate enough to retain Koussevitzky for another year or two, and will make a few obviously necessary changes in its personnel, it will become a marvelous instrument. It is already a remarkable one. The New York Symphony Orchestra I heard only two or three times...
...allowed space to suggest that your editorial, holding up to opprobrious ridicule not only the person but the office of the chief executive of the United States, was not only in decidedly poor taste, and un-American, but also very unlike the Harvard spirit. It will be resented by many who, though perhaps disagreeing with the appropriateness of the ban on a sumptuous inauguration (not "the coronation of the Peepul's annointed"), nevertheless see in his action the conscientious endeavor to put into practice the principles he advocates. J. S. Robinson...
...language is the patois of the unwashed, but he makes things go with a bang; and a refined Boston audience laughed with him continuously for two hours and seventeen minutes. Abiy assisted by his partners, he is the life of the party, even when playing opposite Miss Carlotta Miles' un-conecious rendition of La Gioconda...