Word: beggared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, the fund was completed. Rich men, poor men, beggar men, followers of miscellaneous professions, clinked their money in the same...
...have a Business School at Harvard, of all places?" asked Roland Young, principal of "Beggar on Horseback". By all means educate your business men, I quite approve attempts to raise their standard of intelligence. Let Harvard educate them and a Business School finish them, elsewhere." Mr. Young, an Englishman with an extraordinary American theatrical record, is at present occupied, in the travesty "Beggar on Horseback", in lampooning contemporary commerical America...
...Beggar on Horseback", which is now playing at the Wilbur, is a unique contribution to the art of the theatre. It is not a play, although a play is at the base of it, but is rather a running series of comments on the shortcomings of the "speed and success' idea. That redoubtable pair, Kaufman and Connelly, have observed New York and the surrounding provinces with a nice discrimination; and they have seen a plenty. By all the evidence they wrote the show to please themselves...
Edna Ferber originally wrote this chonicle as a short story-Old Man Minick. George S. Kaufman (coauthor of Dulcy, Merton, Beggar on Horseback, etc.) helped her turn it into a play. Between them they very nearly did a masterpiece. The play is amusing, deeply touching in spots, but overshoots the mark by a too tenacious realism. The characters are types rather than individuals. The detail becomes too authentic...
...story tells of a shoddy confectioner of Bagdad, how he blocked the plot of the King of the Beggars to kill the Calif, rose to a great position in the State, fell because he could not countenance the Calif's cruelty to the captured Beggar King and left Bagdad behind him to make the Golden Journey to Samarkand...