Word: dictional
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...Lotus Flower," it was this year, by Robert Schumann- and last to what newsgatherers love to call an "alma mater." Music Critic Olin Dowries of the New York Times, introduced by Dr. Walter Damrosch, presided over a board of judges which marked the young gentlemen's tone, diction, pitch, ensemble, interpretation. Conferring afterwards, the judges declared that the title had been retained by the melodious 1926 champions from Wesleyan University, whose voluntary contribution was "The Long Day Closes," by Arthur Seymour Sullivan. Young gentlemen from the University of Missouri, champions at home, were not downcast when voted second best...
...these experiences that Mrs. Woodward can lay a claim to the attention of people generally. Her book is written with a certain ardor which seems to go always with some carelessness of phrase and structure. Her training moreover, having been that of a copywriter, leads to some boldness of diction. Yet here poignant portrayals are well worth the leisure of a sympathetic mind
...intellect and headstrong passion. The play is constructed on the episodic model (seven scenes, no act division) covers a 25-year period, many places. The title role is played by Julius Bledsoe, giant Negro whose remarkably resonant voice won instant recognition in the Stallings-Harling opera Deep River. In diction, technique, the cast is not up to high professional standard, yet the presentation is so sincere, the playwright's revelation of Negro character and tribu- lation so keen, that it merits the interest evinced by packed houses...
...Half Way Down", a play in one act, supposedly a curtain raiser, proves that at least one Radcliffe soul has found the sawdust path to salvation better than the primrose avenue to disbelief. Ann, a shop girl whose diction approaches Thirty Third Street to retreat to Park Avenue, meets Father Time in the ringed arena of keen dialectic, vide Bruce Barton, and wins by faith alone. "There is a God", she cries, and all the little birds fly home to their nests and old father sun winks at little Johnnie Skunk...
...particular American characteristics, being essentially just melodious, good, pleasant music. The love duet of the first act is probably the best example of its kind in American Opera. Sung in English, the words were intelligibly projected by the singers; Charles Hackett, particularly, excelled in clarity of diction...