Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From out of the Middle West comes what is without doubt the soundest indictment of the present condition of college athletics yet to reach the public. A brief biography of the author makes clear that he possesses the outward qualifications at least to discuss the question intelligently...
Howells is an author who has been too greatly neglected in these modern days of jazz novels, Percy Marks, James Oliver Curwood, and the ever-satisfying tabloid. He is one of those excellent Victorian writers whose works have been neglected simply because he was a Victorian. In the same category falls Joel Chandler Harris, a writer of immense charm and once of great popularity. To the shame of present day taste even Harris Uncle Remus stories are not now very widely read...
...impossible to distinguish the actors except as they fall into two groups, those who mumble their lines so that they become blessedly inaudible, and those who remember that much of their play is written in that blank which Mr. Shakespeare has undoubtedly persuaded his fellow-author, Mr. Massey, to employ. The skeleton of the verse sticks up like a sore thumb in many places, so that the audience almost prefers the mumblers. But all is forgiven once Ogden Goelet begins his tap dances, in the manner of Jack Donahue, and the audience can take a good deal of punishment...
...impossible to distinguish the actors except as they fall into two groups, those who mumble their lines so that they become blessedly inaudible, and those who remember that much of their play is written in that blank which Mr. Shakespeare has undoubtedly persuaded his fellow-author, Mr. Massey, to employ. The skeleton of the verse sticks up like a sore thumb in many places, so that the audience almost prefers the mumblers. But all is forgiven once Ogden Goelet begins his tap dances, in the manner of Jack Donahue, and the audience can take a good deal of punishment...
...pages are broken with epigrams: "Good servants are trustworthy and it is doubtful whether there is a great man in history who would not, as a valet, have pilfered from his master." The style is quicker on its feet, less mannered, than before. Occasionally, as indicated, Author Arlen squares off too noticeably for a purple passage, a witty remark...