Word: eras
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William Congreve lived in the merry days of Charles II, when the artistic world of London had just emerged from the frowning reticence of the Cromwell era and was bent upon enjoyment. It enjoyed itself, much as it still does, with inquiries into forbidden things. Congreve was at once the most facile and the most witty of the inquirers. His plays are frankly fragile conversations, bent chiefly upon satire of love, as it was then conveniently called. The Provincetown Playhouse group, which have several times more than justified their first season fanfare of intelligent plays produced for the intelligent, gave...
...time we were getting closer to the stage and making it our own. When we come to see the theatre in the light of an institution of the people, by the people, and for the people, then we may expect the era of the great American drama...
...project naturally still hangs in the balance; the theory is still new and untried, but such an innovation certainly deserves all the help that can be given it. Particularly at this time when all news is sensation, and all sensation news there should be some champion of a better era. The Des Moines Register has been the first to take up arms, the first to attempt a remedy...
...aware of any menace to the grand old institution were it not for the atmosphere of dread east over the place by the old gravis, who treasure the past like a sacred jewel. But the past is forever being violated, and it happens that this is an era of particularly swift and radical change, natural and orderly, nevertheless. A brass task? Or a doctor? I think we need the brass tack. E. Austin Benner...
...decline. Think of the possibilities of genuine Punic buttons on Mi-lady's newest gown. Then, too, the discovery is not without historical value. One can now be practically certain that women did exist at the time of Salamnbz, and that the advent of the bob post-dated that era. The special cable to the New York Times stated that the "importance of such a discovery is evident." The most evident thing about it all is that if Count de Prorok wants to poke about in African sands for buttons and hairpins, it is utterly harmless...