Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...easy to think of any parallel to President Coolidge's amazing address to the New York Chamber of Commerce, except a certain notorious prayer. The author of that prayer also thanked God he was not as other men are, and recorded with the same smirking self-satisfaction his financial righteousness and his virtuous self-restraint. No rich parvenu can ever have addressed his humblest poor relation in a tone of more offensively oleaginous patronage than this...
Died. Richard Bret Harte, 35, grandson of the famed author, in Paris, by gas, after leaving a letter indicating despair at being worsted in love...
...Author. Louis Bromfield, a young fellow whose first book, The Green Bay Tree, made its mark among first novels, put forth his second novel not as a sequel but as a companion piece for his first. It covers approximately the same time, the first quarter of the present century, and includes several characters of his first novel, including Lily Shane. He takes himself seriously and promises to make these "panel novels" into a screen, "which, when complete, will consist of at least a half-dozen panels all interrelated...
However, while it is comparatively easy to decide what the play is not, it is not so easy to determine just what it is. The author himself is characteristically vague about it. "For some a comedy" he says, one imagines with a roguish twinkle, "and for others a drama." Or, as Shakespeare said it with much subtler whimsicality, "as you like it." "I don't care whether you laugh or weep", says the "enfant terrible" of the Russian Theatre, "as long as I have succeeded in arousing your interest, in stimulating your curiosity, in helping you while away...
...unworldliness, of "transcendental buffoonery" as Schlezel called it, is struck in the very opening of the first act and is sustained throughout the play. With much subtlety and with a whimsical humor not generally associated with the Russian drama in the mind of the average English-speaking theatregoer, the author transposes his characters from one level of existence to another, from fact to fancy and back again, so that right before our very eyes reality as though by magic melts away into unreality and a new fantastic world comes to life right in our midst by the deft turn...