Word: blame
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boston is not a profitable location dramatically, and in many respects this opinion is thoroughly justified. The only plays that ever manage to hold a theatre open any length of time are usually of the variety of "Abie's Irish Rose." If this is what the public wants, the blame certainly can not be laid to the producers for not risking their money to bring something better. When the talking picture absorbs that audience it is inevitable that the theatres should become dark...
That section of the population who would support plays of a higher calibre either go to New York to satisfy their theatrical appetites or else stay at home in Boston, repelled from the theatre by stupid and unnecessarily stringent censorship. It is useless to blame the producers or the dramatist if the city insists upon emasculating nearly every play that ventures into this frigid atmosphere...
...blame," said M. Champetier de Ribes...
...play is pitiably hackneyed. Admirers of Mr. Rathbone could not blame him for his weak performance...
...differ as to the real cause for the increased disrespect in which a college degree is held in the business world. Some with considerable justification look to the curriculum; others look to the faculty. Now and then some daring soul points out that the student himself may be to blame. At any rate it is the student who suffers when he steps into the outside world, and it is the student who should take it upon himself to look hardest for remedies, even when he has to shove them down his own throat...