Beer·bohm

(bîr′bōm′), Sir Henry Maximilian Known as "Max." 1872-1956.

British caricaturist, writer, and wit whose Caricatures of Twenty-five Gentlemen appeared in 1896.

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Beerbohm

(ˈbɪəbəʊm)

(Biography) Sir (Henry) Max(imilian). 1872–1956, English critic, wit, and caricaturist, whose works include Zuleika Dobson (1911), a satire on Oxford undergraduates

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Beer•bohm

(ˈbɪər boʊm)

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Sir Max, 1872–1956, English essayist, critic, and caricaturist.

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Max Beerbohm in a volume of parodies entitled "A Christmas Garland," where I found myself in very good company.

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Indeed, in the wild school of caricature then current, Mr Max Beerbohm had represented him as a proposition in the fourth book of Euclid.

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SIR, - The recent article in The P&J about vandalism at the Oldmachar nursery (Press and Journal, August 21) reminded me of an essay by the satirist Max Beerbohm, published in 1896.

Illustrating the urge to destroy; Letters to the editor Write to: Letters to the editor, The Press and Journal, 1 Marischal Square, Broad Street, Aberdeen, AB10 1BL. email: pj.letters@ajl.co.uk All letters are subject to editing and must include your full address and daytime telephone number for verification. Thank you

The esteemed Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree originated the role of Henry Higgins on the West End would look longingly at Eliza as she leaves, even finding bouquets to throw in her direction.

The Fair Ending

A Sir Cuthbert Seerholm Tree B Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree C Sir Richard Randall Tree D Sir Brian Blessed Tree 2.

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In the 1950s while working on The Worcester Account, Behrman also prepared another New Yorker series, an extended biographical profile of the British humorist Max Beerbohm. When Beerbohm published Zuleika Dobson (1911), his novel of Oxford life, the impression on Behrman was long-lasting, since he included two references to the book in The Worcester Account.

"FIRST CONNECTIONS WITH STAGECRAFT": S. N. BEHRMAN FINDS HIS VOCATION

<B Ivor Novello and Vivien Leigh in Max Beerbohm's The Happy Hypocrite at His Majesty's Theatre, Haymarket in 1936 Aberystwyth University

Welsh composer whose songs and films won him worldwide fame; Ivor Novello was a Cardiff-born composer and actor who served in World War I before masterminding what became one of the most patriotic songs for those on the front line and back home. He found global fame and his legacy lives on to this day. Tom Houghton tells his story

El motivo del autor que solo logra trascender como personaje, tiene su antecedente directo, dentro de las lecturas de Borges, en el cuento de Max Beerbohm que tradujo para la Antologia del cuento fantastico (1940) (Balderston, Innumerables 91; Olea 258-61), "Enoch Soames", cuyo personaje homonimo, un escritor fracasado, tras hacer un pacto con el diablo viaja al futuro para conocer el impacto que tuvo su obra literaria, solo para descubrir que la unica mencion de su nombre se encuentra dentro de un cuento, donde un escritor fracasado hace un pacto con el diablo para viajar al futuro...

Las posibilidades del Aleph

Tillinghast, a poet and nonfiction writer, provides personal essays about his travels to places like India, Pakistan, Nepal, Oregon, Ireland, Italy, England, Tennessee, and Hawaii, including places he has lived, the architecture of various places, and poets, writers, designers, and other individuals who lived in them, such as George MacBeth, William Morris, Max Beerbohm, John Betjeman, Nathan Bedford Forrest, and Peter Taylor.

Journeys Into the Mind of the World: A Book of Places

He took no more interest in politics in 1800 than Max Beerbohm, his truest successor, did in 1900.

Dandyism in the Age of Revolution: The Art of the Cut

Herbert Beerbohm Tree produced some fine plays in London.

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