Word: applauding
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...larger proportion of them attend and enjoy the moving pictures. They admit the possibility and applaud the actuality of a true interpretation of life therein, whether the subject be Babylon or West Point, whether it is filmed in California or Garden City. Hence a sense of reciprocity would admit that the world should see Harvard...
...effort. I think it comes with bad grace for us to propose it. If we would live up to our professions in the Hague Conferences and during the War, we must put our moral support behind the Court that exists, and announce to the world that we applaud the gain that has been made...
...with consequences in the way of false standards equally harmful to the boys involved. For while bribes and subsidies will debauch the few who play, the do-or-die stuff makes eternal sophomores not only out of the few who play but also out of the many who applaud. What was George F. Babbitt but an eternal sophomore...
Boston audiences, much maligned by most visiting actors, received a kind word from Mr. Hopper. "Boston audiences," he averred, "are as appreciative as any that you can find. It's true that they do not applaud as pronouncedly as audiences do in some places, for instance, New York. But New York audiences are deceptive in that they do not represent the citizens of that city. The people you play to in New York are excursionists from all over the country, and they have the excursionist spirit. But the real New York audience, the one you get on Saturday night...
...Boston, you don't get so many out-of-towners, and so the audience is more representative. For this reason, there is none of the 'cutting loss' so characteristic of excursionists. Boston, however, provides as good a 'laughing audience' as you can get. They laugh, but they do not applaud, and perhaps this is why they have their bad reputation. Boston audiences are appreciative, and they are intelligent. The little subtleties are noticed, but they are acknowledged by laughter rather than by applause...