Word: alison
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...will be taken by M. Ernest Perrin. Destournelles will be taken by W. B. Cowen, Jr., '30, Bernard Stampley by E. P. Etling '29, Raoul de Vaubert by F. G. Shaw, Jr., '31, Jasmin by W. D. Carter '31, La Baronne de Vaubert by Elizabeth Lyman, and Helene by Alison Hardy...
...Dane's Defense. A new repertory company of able artists (Violet Heming, Alison Skipworth, Robert Warwick, et al.) revived as their first production this play of the yeasty '90's. As everyone over 40 knows and everyone who has ever attended a course on the drama can explain, this was a slashing play. Mrs. Dane was a fallen woman, and she lied about it?to preserve her place in suburban London society and to keep the young squib whom she loved. Such conduct was reprehensible, and the neighbors, including the ineffective young swain, felt obligated to expel her. Chastity went...
...Alison Skipworth is reliably funny as our old harpy. One Mary Robinson enacts as tough a creature as is permissible without frightening the audience. Donald Ogden Stewart, author of mad literature, writes herein his first lines for the stage and rouses occasional uproar...
...demands of drama were acceded to in focusing primary interest on the lovers. Helen Gahagan was the girl, the astonishingly beautiful Helen Gahagan who so steadily resembles Ethel Barrymore, possibly imitates her. Alison...
...Distinct Province of Poetry and Eloquence; On Sensibility to Public Opinion; The Pleasures and Effects of Early Friendship; On the Maxim that Virtue Is Essential to the Character of an Orator; a "dispute" On the Comparative Pleasure Derived from the Works of Art and Nature; a "colloquy" On Alison's Theory of Taste...