Word: evens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hero of "Hassan" shared with the disillusioned Tolstoyan of "Flesta" in straining the sense of probability. After such a series of primitives, sometimes merry but always extravagant, we may well return to life as we know it or at latest to the realm of a disciplined and central imagination. Even should it choose to disregard the perplexity of a bewildered public, the Dramatic Club would seem to owe to its members the opportunity to show that they are not really morons, even though they have acted the part for the last several productions. Situated with both cast and academic audience...
...that very little need be said of it. It comes to the Wilbur next week, displacing Katherine Cornell's vehicle. "The Age of Innocence". A gripping war play that was first written for production by an amateur mens' club in London and hence contains no female parts, it is even more effective than the success of some years ago, "What Price Glory". In common with most of the more recent literature about the war, it makes no use of melodramatic narrative, but instead paints a series of unforgettable characters and scenes inside a front-line dugout...
...From the point of view of the Italian Fascist, parliamentary government is on its last legs, for neither in England or France has any party a majority; even in America the insurgents or the farm bloc could put the Senate in an analagous position...
...only way a star can keep going is by working hard all the time, and never stopping," he said. "Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne never cease working, even when they are preparing a play six months in advance. They are my ideal of two real, genuine artists...
...greatest trouble, we run up against in the early part of the year is the readdressing of mail sent just to the University. Why, as many as 1000, 1500, or even 2000 letters come in each day, and usually half of these are invitations to the students! Sometimes a staff of several men has been kept working as late as 10 o'clock in the evening readdressing letters; and so great is the desire of the public for information that whenever there is a light burning in the evening from the window of our office, people...