Word: expected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Much later on when Servia had become the pet of the British public, he sat next to Lord Birkenhead at a public dinner, and was mischievously asked. What about that Servian poster of yours? I expect you're sorry by this time that you sent...
...assembled numbers many of the best in Boston; quite a few have had experience in the '47 Workshop, and judging from their performances so far, all of them are superior to the average stock company players. Since they are primarily students of the theatre and the drama, one may expect more revealing interpretation, more subtlety perhaps, more real art than one finds in the ordinary popular play. And since the Guild is not a stock company, but picks its actors from a large group, it need not overwork a few stars in possibly uncongenial parts, but may by careful selection...
...followed by Modern. The books are not easy to read, but they repay a little delving. Faure is a brilliant stylist, his word-stream brimming with metaphor and colorful imagery, always intent upon inner meaning, and emotional overtones, so that his writing is obscure to those who expect mere surface description. But the translation is itself an admirable work of letters. He treats of sculpture and architecture with fair attention as well as painting. He has not produced a text or an encyclopedia, but tells only enough of an artist and his works to convey his spiritual and historical relations...
...remainder of the entertainment is exactly what Stone's followers for 21 years have been trained to expect. Dorothy Stone is the poor girl; she marries the disguised Prince. Father Fred is Peter Plug, a plumber, who stands by in every scene to protect her from the villainous hardships set upon a musical comedy heroine. Mother Stone (Allene Crater) also plays a prominent part and marries Peter Plug at the last-to the wild delight of the audience...
...building will cost $1,000,000, and so far only $300,000 has been contributed. The Committee was led to expect a dollar each from 1,200,000 American students, but whereas institutions like "West Point, Annapolis, Hunter, Amherst, Bryn Mawr, St. Stephens, Yale have oversubscribed their quotas, and half a dozen schools have fulfilled their promises, almost three-fourths of all the students concerned have failed to contribute. Another campaign is about to be made...