Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Experimental theatres in the last few years have been blossoming like the proverbial dandelion, and most of them have been almost as ephemeral. Our local specimen, the Boston Stage Society, seems to have survived the winter, and bids fair to become a hardy perennial. This earnest group of amateurs is working under conditions which make dramaphiles incline to point them out for charity. This first production, it is said, cost them but fifteen dollars for costumes and scenery: but with the insignificant admission charged, and the meagre patronage they have received, even such economy is no assurance of a safe...
...these days when the limitation of everything from petticoats to armaments is all the rage, the earnest reformer must soon be looking about him for new fields of endeavor. There is, in the estimation of many, too much of most everything in this world; how to eliminate some of it is consequently a pertinent question. Unfortunately, authorities will disagree as to what should be thus disposed of. Some would eliminate all government, others, all taxes; down in New Jersey they are trying to limit the limitations imposed by the nineteenth amendment. Still others confine their efforts to the suppression...
...looking to the professional theatres", he declared. "Entertainment must come through an appeal to the intelligence of the audience, such as can never be found in the movies; and the best vehicle for the expression of this appeal is the spoken drama as presented by earnest amateurs...
...looking for relief to the professional theatre", he declared. "Entertainment must come through an appeal to the intelligence of the audience, such as can never be found in the movies; and the best vehicle for the expression of this appeal is the spoken drama as presented by earnest amateurs. If is the promoting of theatricals throughout our institutions of learning in which lies the future of our American drama...
...escape of Lieutenant Dittmar from the prison in Naumberg. Condemned by the Supreme Court of Leipsig for his connection with the sinking of the hospital-ship Liandovery Castle during the war, he was given the heavy sentence of four years as an "example and a warning", and an earnest of good faith on the part of the German Government. Now he is reported to have "eluded, the vigilance" of his guards and disappeared, with the major portion of his sentence along with him. A reward of fifty thousand marks (in paper) has been offered for his return...