Word: beggared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Albert, King of Belgium: "One Harold Kellock, writing in The Freeman, now defunct, described a character appearing in a current Manhattan theatrical production (Beggar on Horseback) as follows: 'He is a Herculean person, like Albert of Belgium, though, of course, he looks more intelligent...
...BEGGAR ON HORSEBACK-A brilliant dream fantasy, at which the tired business man dies a lingering death from...
...Beggar on Horseback. George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly, authors of Dulcy and To the Ladies! have gratified even more than usual their impish itching to scalp the tired business man and expose his lack of brains. In Beggar on Horseback they have indulged their suppressed desires by murdering him. Their instrument of vengeance, an impraetical young composer, leaves no doubt of his pique by wiping out the stodgy manufacturer and his entire wealthy, babbitt family...
...would rather be a beggar and single, than a queen and married...
...spite of aspersions, The Beggar's Opera has its points. It was written as a parody on the Continental operas then being played in London and on the debauched court life of the period. A highwayman was made the hero instead of the usual sugary prince, and his morals were made somewhat better than those of the court. For music Gay took the popular ballads and wrote new lyrics-satirical, delightful, tart. The result has the vigor of all things born from the spirit of the people as opposed to gross artificiality. Its success in London must be attributed...