Word: doors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...honors of the play, however, are mainly to be heaped before the door of Miss Lynn Fontanne. This singularly fine English actress (known in America principally for her delightful " Dulcy ") quite carries the play away. Despite her unconquerable English accent, almost Cockney, she gives an amazingly effective portrait of the nitwit heroine. Her sense of humor, her touch for character values are remarkable...
Specifically George, R. I., is not a polo player. But the Prince of Wales is. Edward maintains his own stable, and he has thrown open the door and given the British polo authorities carte blanche to lead away to the International cup matches at Meadowbrook, L. I., in September any of the animals they desire. The string of ponies, which includes several of Eastern blood presented by Indian rajahs during the world tour of the Prince, is considered the finest in the Kingdom. It is expected that all the sportsmen of England will emulate the Royal example. The English team...
There is such a thing as journalistic luck. When President Harding died suddenly and unexpectedly, a representative of the Associated Press was waiting outside the Presi- dent's door in the hallway? almost deserted because it was thought that the President's health was improving. Regardless of this fact an Associated Press man had been on hand continuously. As soon as the President collapsed, the reporter was away with the news. Telegraph operators had been ordered not to leave their instruments. Only a few minutes later the news was in newspaper offices throughout the country. That was journalistic preparedness...
There has been these last few months a barely discernible turn of the tide. Romeyne Park Benjamin, The Jitney Players (mostly college graduates), Oliver Harriman (Princeton) have cast their lots with the actors. Possibly none of them will succeed John Barrymore; yet their example in forcing the national stage door against the dead weight of convention is invaluable. Young men of less position but with more temperament may be aroused to follow their inclinations through the door thus opened...
...pioneer parentage. He was a graduate of the University of Iowa and began his career as a lawyer in White Oaks, a cow-town "where undertakers were more in demand than lawyers." Later he settled in Chicago, practicing law and writing, in his spare time, for out-of-doors periodicals. The Mississippi Bubble made his first real success in the literary field?other books include The Story of the Cowboy, (praised by Theodore Roosevelt), The Man Next Door, The Girl at the Halfway House and The Covered Wagon, which, in its movie incarnation, gave him, perhaps, his widest audience...