Word: victorianism
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...every page they reprint some moral tale or verse from some such temperance sourcebook as No Gin Today, Anecdotes from the Platform, Temperance Annual; then counter at the bottom with recipes for drinks. The scheme, more ingenious than its execution, is helped somewhat by pseudo-Victorian pseudo-engravings by Artist John Held Jr. Like all rummagings in the attic, this one recovers some rare antiques; the full version of that affecting ballad, "Father, Dear Father Come Home with Me Now"; the verisimilitudinous fable of the aleful mother who staggered home with her child in one arm, a bag of meal...
...treasure fills a great gap in the history of art as shown in U. S. museums. Wise purchases and liberal gifts have made the U. S. comparatively rich in Egyptian, Classical, Gothic, Renaissance and Modern. Of that whole period from the 4th to the 13th Century referred to by Victorian professors as the dark ages, U. S. collections have scarcely anything but a few fragments of Romanesque sculpture, an occasional porphyry column or bit of mosaic. This period is completely covered by the Welfenschatz. Earliest of the pieces is an 8th Century enamel plaque bearing a pop-eyed head...
Best new pantomine was the Victorian "Piq-Nique," illustrating a hoopskirted female terrified of spiders, fishing worms, the cold brook; awed by the imaginary male recumbent under an umbrella. In "Webs," an overintellectualized conception, Miss Enters struggled ineffectually with the jazz age, moved hysterically to a Symphony" potpourri of and Cesar "Papa Franck's Loves "D Mama," Minor ended up on one knee like Al ("Mammy") Jolson...
...true cross-section has been achieved. Lowell and Dunster have representative groups, but Adams House has stolen a march on them both and will house its students in a architectural cross-section. Mid-Victorian Russell will be linked to Fourteenth century Statler Westmorly by a Georgian dining hall which boasts Greek pillars. Across the street the German Renaissance Randolph, holding within its womb early colonial Apthorp will complete a grouping of perfect harmony. It is the spirit of the House Plan...
Once yearly the dusty, mid-Victorian Union League, a semipolitical (Republican) organization with some social pretensions, pays its respects to Art with an exhibition to which members may bring their wives and daughters. Advertised as chef d'oeuvre of last week's exhibition was the lifesize, specifically nude bronzed plaster cast of Paul Robeson, Negro baritone, Shakespearean actor, onetime Rutgers football star, which Sculptor Antonio Salemme sent last summer to Philadelphia, which it shocked (TIME, June 30). For most of the summer it has been on view at the Brooklyn Museum...