Word: agents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dreaded brand "Mrs. Heywood Broun." Ruth Hale is slim, dark, vivid, eager. She writes moving picture criticisms and book reviews. She has a cleverness very nearly as distinct as that of her versatile husband. George Kaufman and Marc Connolly, too, are usually here; and John Peter Toohy, press agent, author of a novel and of plays. Of such is "The Round Table." Otherwise at the Algonquin: The Rascoes, Hazel and Burton-Burton, a nervous, slender figure, vigorously collecting gossip for his column in the Sunday Tribune; Carl Van Vechten, imposing, with white hair and youthful face, bitter with his tongue...
...voice in that judgment. When the value of the Hague Court has been proved by its increasing work, when every month adds to its growing dignity and power, the United States cannot with wisdom continue in its present anomalous position, nor fail, without rank inconsistency to endorse the best agent yet devised by humanity for the peaceful settlement of international disputes...
...because he thought it was still good entertainment for the regular theatre-goer. He was right--but the regular theatre-goer hasn't waked up yet. "The Beggar's Opera" was an identical experiment, but in that case the theatre-goer did wake up. Perhaps it was the press-agent...
With last night's performance, the fall production of the Dramatic Club came to an end. As the work of the press agent is done and even the critic has wiped his pen and turned to something else, the subject, from the point of view of news, is "dead". But before the "Life of Man" passes completely off the stage, to be classed carelessly with "revivals" and the "Russian Movement in America", some notice should be taken of what the Dramatic Club has accomplished...
...seen her in the two previous productions, she was again Mlle. Sorel, the Doucet-costumed, the brilliant technician, the vivid personality, yea, even "the magnificent", but not the sincere worker in the art of portraying character. One begins to suspect, in fact, that Mademoiselle has a very clever press agent...