Word: beggared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Beggar's Gold...
John Gay's The Beggar's Opera closed in London. It opened just three years and seven months ago and had a run of 1,463 consecutive performances. This record has been eclipsed only twice, by Chu Chin Chow and Charley's Aunt. There were days, however, when The Beggar's Opera held the endurance record from all comers. When it originally opened in London in the 1700's it had the longest run that any play had had until that time-50 consecutive evenings, if memory serves. It was said at the time that...
Nevertheless, the London critics marvelled at the recent run of The Beggar's Opera. They said it did not contain the "charm and spirit" of Gilbert and Sullivan; that it is inferior "artistically and musically...
...writer of prominence is always asked about himself and his work, and attacking the popular newspaper legend that pictures him as a noisy apostle of poetical jazz. He explains his love for Egypt; his admiration for Poe; his forbears; his reason for going on the road, a new beggar-troubadour, trading his rhymes for bread: "I was told by the Babbits on every hand I must quit being an artist or beg. So I said: 'I will beg!' ... It was an act of spiritual...
Perhaps the University is depraved beyond redemption. Yale has recently undertaken a Temperance Movement. At any rate, the redoubtable Doctor must be called in once again: "The Beggar's Opera' is an excellent example of how literary tastes differ...