Word: actions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Arts in the University, spoke on the history of the Dramatic Club. He pointed out that every production it has gives in recent years has been either its first performance in America or has exploited a new theatrical field. "The Taming of the Shrew," presented with modernized dress and action, is the latest and most novel thing it has done. Without doubt, he said the experiment will be carefully watched by producers, seeking a new from of theatrical entertainment...
...sheer bigotry recent repressive action against freedom of expression at the University of Washington deserves the prize. Simultaneous new dispatches from Seattle contain the information that H. J. Chambers, Instructor in English, has been placed on probation and refused reappointment for reading to his class the first chapter of Bertrand Russell's "What I Believe", and that editors of "Columns", the monthly literary magazine, have been barred from all campus activities for a year and their magazine suspended for publishing a burlesque life of Abraham Lincoln...
...automobile owners and the threat to Princeton's traditional seclusion latent in roadsters capable of reaching bright-lit cities in two hours of the day or night, moved Dean Christian Gauss to ask the senior council to pass a prohibitive ruling. He asked twice. The council took no action. It had passed a rule last spring requiring parental permission for student motors. Cars were not allowed to enter the campus. The council believed that was sufficient prohibition. Dean Gauss went to the university trustees and the prohibition was soon published, a university rule to go into effect next autumn...
Their first production, Loud Speaker, was written by John Howard Lawson, author of Processional (TIME, Jan. 26, 1925). As expected, it is staged against a "constructivist" background and presents the subjective state of the principal characters as well as their objective actions. The virtue of such staging is that, by affording the playwright several planes of action on one stage, it allows greater flexibility than is permitted by the rigid three-walled limitations of ordinary theatre. Thus, in Loud Speaker, the candidate for governor of the State may be discovered mulling over his radio speech in one corner...
...Polar ship, the Roosevelt; he followed the dogsleds out over the Polar zone to within 100 miles of the Pole itself. Again, he sailed as Commander of the Karluk of the Canadian Arctic expedition, and, when that ship met the perils of floating Ice, it was Bartlett's prompt action that kept the party alive. Four men went off into the bitter Polar night and were never heard of again. Captain Bartlett marched across the floes to the coast of Siberia, crossed to Nome, and chartered a relief ship, in which he rescued the survivors...