Word: classics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Except for the two classic names. there was nothing to warrant excitement. In the first place, the malt tonic is unpotable. While it contains 3.5% alcohol, it also contains 25% solid. One slimy gulp of it is unpleasant, two are unspeakable, three unthinkable. In the second place, the permits granted were only temporary, and if U. S. ingenuity finds ways of using the tonic as a base for soul-satisfying beer, the permits will be, according to General Lincoln C. Andrews, speedily withdrawn...
...when the world-worn modern (which is a much better name than tired business man) completes his vicarious journey and betakes himself from romantic reading to classic slumber he has really wandered a rather inferior road. "The High Adventure", after all, is not quite so lofty as its name might suggest. For the most half romanticist feels the need of certain tricks of style and thought to keep him from waking to reality. And Mr. Farnol has given him few in this particular work. The plot is very, very apparent. One reality guesses who the real villian is early...
...woman whose home became a sanctum in which even a husband had no place. THE WISDOM TOOTH-Glowing fantasy about a poor clerk who became a boy again for a few hours. CYRANO DE BERGERAC-Walter Hampden's more or less annual revival of Rostand's classic story of a man who made love for his more handsome friend. LESS SERIOUS THE LAST OP MRS. CHEYNEY-Ina Claire and a highly polished troupe in a story of stolen pearls in the English nobility. THE BUTTER AND EGG MAN-The last few weeks of the tale...
...CYRANO DE BERGERAC?Rostand's classic tale of the man whose nose was too large for any woman to love...
...Dickson '27 in the next speech made the most convincirg point of the evening for the negative when he showed that the Renaissance had come about largely through the work of the universities which erabled the world to rediscover the classic culture. "Education preserves the cultural continuity of the race," he said in conclusion...