Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Volpone. When the Theatre Guild wanted to play Ben Jonson's sardonic comedy, they chose to retranslate the German version recently effected by Stefan Zweig. Their choice was wise. As rewritten by an up-to-date European, Author Jonson's somewhat mechanical morality becomes a gleeful and raucous farce, lacking the solemnity of a classic and imbued instead with precisely the caustic and colloquial violence which it had for its original audiences...
...persistent "What does Mr. Coolidge think of. . . ." and finally regrets solemnly that the President will be detained for several days in secret conference on the Mayflower, but hopes Mr. Schmaltz will drop in again next time he is in Washington. Unembarrassed by having overheard this White House conversation, Author Lewis stool-pigeons Lowell Schmaltz through interminable monologues. He is then able to present the following data...
...Soul. Lowell Schmaltz puts in his list of "leading intellects" Anne Nichols, because, "say, the author of a play like Abie's Irish Rose, that can run five years, is in my mind-maybe it's highbrow and impractical to look at it that way, but the way I see it, she's comparable to any business magnate, and besides they say she's made as much money as Jack Dempsey...
...this play alive Sometimes, the reviewer being more or less innocent of such matters, thought that he was being privileged to listen to dialogue which was somewhat over his rather low brow, but this perhaps is to be expected from the pen of the Pulitzer Prize winner, the author of "They Knew What They Wanted" and "Ned MeCobb's Daughter...
...been connected with the University since 1884 and from 1902 to 1917 was curator of the Germanic Museum. Besides his work in the University as professor of the history of German culture and curator of the museum, Professor Francke is the author of 15 books...