Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tons of Money" is of the money-love-confusion- revelation drama variety, a type of play growing from the intrigues of the Restoration. The plot is somewhat originally handled; the jokes are on the shady side of forty, and beginning to show their age. Yet the play is funny, exceedingly so, and rather satisfactory, despite the acting of most of the cast. Admirers of Mr. Clive and his policy of stressing the farce will get theirs at "Tons of Money...
...Instructors should expose to students the beauty and external significance of the subject in order to bring to the students' minds the infinite possibilities of this new intellectual age...
...age notorious for its laxity to the woman murderer; in a generation which tempers its judgment toward females in proportion to their so-called 'sex-appeal'; in a day when judges are known to order screens placed between the prisoner-at-the-bar and her jury, Mrs. Frances Hall, without any attempt, apparently, to clutch after youth or the allurements of her sex, sits grim as winter...
...What right has a Vatican court to pass upon the validity of marriage between members of another communion, solemnized in a Protestant Episcopal Church in New York, under the laws of the U. S. . . . There is much evidence which runs counter to the decision. . . . That any woman of middle age, after years of married, life, should be willing to swear that her parents sold her for worldly gain, and against her will, is a scandal. . . ." He came to his evident point: "If couples who have lived years in wedlock can procure annulments merely by discovering that undue pressure in some...
...Civic Repertory Theatre.* La Locandiera, the Mistress of the Inn (Eva Le Gallienne) breaks through the crust of a woman-hater, the cavalier Ripafratta, finds him quite soft inside, then jilts him and marries her headwaiter. An old play, it is presented with all its venerable tokens of age (soliloquies, asides, good and evil characters) yet not subjected to the snickers of sophisticated production...