Laughing Boy with Flute Laughing Boy with Flute Laughing Boy with a Flute is a painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals, painted in the early 1620s. This painting was documented by Hofstede de Groot in 1910, who wrote "31. A LAUGHING BOY WITH A FLUTE. M. 240. Half-length, in profile to the left. The head is three-quarters left. The long hair falls in disorder. The lips are parted, showing the teeth. On the left the flute is held upright in the right hand. The eyes look to the left and slightly upward. Lifelike colour in the face. Circular panel, n| inches
Laughing in the Jungle Laughing in the Jungle Laughing in the Jungle, published in 1932, is an autobiography by a Slovene-American writer Louis Adamic. As a fourteen year old, Adamic immigrated to the United States in 1913 from Carniola (Kranjska), at that time a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In Adamic’s words, "Laughing in the Jungle" was an attempt to explain his experiences as an immigrant to America. The title of the book, "Laughing in the Jungle", was inspired by Upton Sinclair’s 1906 book "The Jungle". Adamic for the first time learned about the book from his Carniolan neighbor, Peter Molek, who said to