Word: bide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Though written by Bide Dudley, chatty theatre editor of the New York Evening World, the play is redundant, filled with burdensome explanations of obvious situations. The predicament of Husband Carter is invested with little or no dramatic dignity. Tripping delicately between silliness and indelicacy, as if performing an egg dance, Richard Gordon gives a deft, sincere but inevitably useless performance as Husband Carter...
...more recently he was Mayor of the Chinese settlement at Shanghai. Last week he quietly put forward the Nationalist claims for revision of China's "unequal treaties" with the Powers but displayed in his statements to the press a healthy consciousness of realities and a willingness to bide his time...
Dear Norton, bide with us today...
...KING'S HENCHMAN-Edna St. Vincent Millay-Harper ($2). Folk who must bide their time to hear how Composer Deems Taylor upheld his end of a notable collaboration, will wonder, reading this play, which was written first, his music or the Millay words? If she followed him, he must have written right beautifully. If he followed her, the music needed little more than orchestrating. In the speeches set down here, scarcely a line falls upon the ear without touching a clear note-a misty whitethorn treble, superstitious minors, full-throated, Beowulfian bass. Had the Metropolitan singers at last fortnight...
...Cross the River from Queens." The plot: a Dry millionaire soap manufacturer, arrested in a night club, switches to the Wets after a month in jail, with such success that he is elected to Congress, and his daughter and pet office girl are free to marry their respective tenors. Bide Dudley (dramatic critic of the N. Y. Evening World) and Louis Simon (actor in the play) wrote the book, worked in many a laugh, also insinuated a jail scene, one of those atrociously vulgar burlesques on sex perversion so popular this year. It was greeted enthusiastically, justifying entirely the discretion...