Word: amongst
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...much misunderstood Mark Sabre. David Belasco's production of The Merchant of Venice, with David Warfield as Shylock, is to be produced ii- London. The Music Box Revue is also about to be offered to the London public. The San Francisco Theatre Guild has disagreed amongst itself and disbanded. In the course of its existence it produced six plays: Miss Lulu Bett, The Truth About Blayds, Heartbreak House, S. S. Tenacity, Enter Madame, A Doll's House. Seventy performances in all were given. One of the recent personal triumphs of this season is that of Dwight Frye...
...juste" and have forced their readers to learn the value of the dictionary. When one starts out to enrich the vocabulary in this way the possibilities are limitless. See how a little diligence can improve the usual novel opening. "It was something akin to ataraxy that our heroine, aestivating amongst the alsike, observed that her apolaustie hero had come from abroad aristate". And these are only in the "A's". One must be more than an abecedarian to keep space of the times...
...dramatic life of his subject, proportioning it justly, and letting it go its own exciting way in the theatre. The play is divided into five episodes. The two most conspicuous are that wherein Pasteur addresses the reactionary Academy of Medicine?heckling members of which are planted here and there amongst the audience?and that in which he effects the first cure for hydrophobia on a young...
...Everything is explained when it is learned that John Meehan, who helped write and stage the play, used to be a director with George M. Cohan. The shrewd touch of that nasal genius is everywhere conspicuous. The twin wraiths of Seven Keys to Baldpate and The Tavern wander spectrally amongst the audience...
...Amongst our other activities recently the University Mission has loomed fairly large. Dr. Furse, the Bishop of St. Albans, was O. C., if we may borrow from military sources, and his strong personality and characteristically breezy manner went far to appeal to the undergraduates. The attendances, we are told, were good; and at the close of the Mission the Archbishop of Canterbury came up to add his seal to the proceedings...