Word: cleverisms
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...contain policemen. "He Said, etc." contains all the same ingredients of these old familiar farces, including the policeman. When this officer is asked whether he is or is not primitive, he replies that he is Irish. You expected as much. The play is full of the kind of clever lines that the gentle reader could easily have made up himself...
...true innovation of the play is the manner in which a young physician makes several other men's wives fall in love with him. The method used in each case is humorously uniform, but it is clever enough to give him a tremendous practice for a time. What happens when these methods are revealed is the cause of all the trouble...
...part of the Professor's wife. She has all the skill of long experience and much of the bloom of youth. Frederick Eric does well as the theorist, reminding Cambridge auditors of many friends of the lecture platform. In the part of Dr. May, Harvey Hawley is consistently clever and nimble...
...occasional faults in the composition mentioned above, the use of full-page cartoons, which seem rather flippant and cheap for a serious college pictorial, and the glaring double-page "ad" in the exact centre of the paper,--the issue is very creditable. It reflects University life in its clever photographs, and echoes the present universal stir for real preparedness in a way which should fully satisfy the most broad-minded among us. All in all, it is a distinct step forward. N. C. STARR...
...Tailor Made Man" by its reception last night seems assured of a deserved success. The Boston stage has offered nothing so unhesitatingly clever this year...