Word: fashionableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play is short (out at 10:30) and chopped small in episodes. These waits weaken interest. Mr. Ames' excellent staging is not so excellent as usual. Mr. Galsworthy's thesis is engrossing in a faintly inhibited fashion. "Gentleman worship" is a cult most of the U.S. envies, tries to copy, fails perhaps to understand. For almost any U.S. actor, the part would have been impossible; for Mr. Howard it is a goal unerringly achieved. The Taming of the Shrew develops into a pretty feeble farce along toward the latter half, but up to that time, perhaps unto...
...disbelieving the story of her elopment with the young naval officer. They said that, intellectually inclined, she is much more interested in reading U. S. and British books and magazines, in search for ideas, and was the last girl in the world to lose her head in such temperamental fashion. Finally, they were unanimous in flaying the gossip mongers who had so flagrantly circulated what they termed "purient nonsense...
...stayed at the Metropolitan through the "Golden Age" when Gadski, Nordica, the de Reszkes, David Bispham and Schumann-Heink were making German music, when Fritzi Scheff was the bait for tired starched magnates, when berthas and hourglass figures were the fashion...
...editorial staff of which he now belongs. With Mr. Nathan he rose to repute as one of the editors of the Smart Set, and to fame as the editor of the American Mercury which the two started in 1923. Two years ago he toured, in eccentric fashion, part...
...still they watched and still their wonder grew--the Crimson apparently had no song to honor its name in defeat as well as in victory. The losers were no less amazed. "What manner of men are these, who refuse to celebrate their conquest in the customary and accepted fashion", were the words on all lips as the Dartmouth stands remained respectfully at attention...