Word: bested
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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ROPE'S END?This contains the season's best shriek...
Hermann Oelrichs, rich Manhattanite, six months ago offered $200 for the best gallows speech of a prisoner sentenced to death for taking a drink. Last week he said that he had received some 5,000 manuscripts, all "dull"; that the offer was "just a Roman holiday sort of joke," that "the affair died a natural death. I thought everyone understood that...
...Wonderful Night. Best known of Johann Strauss operas is Die Fledermaus (The Bat), which has been presented to various English-understanding audiences as Night Birds, The Merry Countess and is now offered by the Brothers Shubert under a persuasive title which suggests a Shubert burlesque or a cheap cinema. Since the humor-depending on a husband's seduction by a masked beauty who turns out to be his wife-is not certainly apparent to modern audiences, other Viennese values must be emphasized. Chief among these, of course, is the music, which the Shuberts have duly honored by hiring...
...their vaudeville, interpolate a comedian named Solly Ward who tells time by the number of cats in the backyard and, observing six, declares it to be "five after one." But these gaucheries and the stiffness of many of the cast may be forgotten if you submit yourself to the best musical score on Broadway, the creation of a little Austrian kapellmeister whose farewell concert in London (1849) was followed by a triumphal exodus on a fleet of barges down the Thames when he heard, for almost the last time, the strains of his own "Blue Danube" ringing in his ears...
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