Word: felt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expected that the loss in revenue will be spread out over several shears. One of the questions remaining to be decided last week was what is to be the tax on theatre admissions. A sub-committee proposed to retain the tax except on the legitimate drama, which it is felt can least afford to bear the tax. But trouble was encountered in defining "legitimate drama." Finally the following tentative definition was drawn...
Since the Scopes trial, many people have felt (unjustly enough) that their eyes had surely been opened to the condition of things in Tennessee-a wildwood state, populated by bearded illiterates whose ears still rumble with echoes of the shooting at Bull Run, whose Bible is a shotgun, whose primer is a bottle and who believe in Santa Claus. Last week Vanderbilt University (in Nashville) made an announcement which somewhat corrected this impression. Trustees and alumni, having completed their semicentennial celebration, started a nationwide drive to raise $4,000,000 for the department of science. Said Chancellor James H. Kirkland...
...Philadelphia Orchestra gave its first public concert. With it appeared as soloist Ossip Gabrilowitsch, brilliant young Russian pianist, then making his first U.S. tour. Last week the same orchestra, the same soloist were heard again in Manhattan. Because he felt himself a comparative newcomer, Leopold Stokowski handed his stick to Concertmaster Thaddeus Rich who, a better conductor than most concertmasters, led the first number. Then Mr. Gabrilowitsch, a more mature and no less brilliant artist than he was 25 years ago, sonorously assisted in interpreting the rugged, lordly and immortal Tschaikowsky's B-flat Minor Concerto...
Even in its most unrestrained moments, the effete East confines itself to tearing down goal-posts. Nothing so tame and un-destructive would do for the Middle West. With all the recourses of Chicago at their disposal, liquid and otherwise, the students of Northwestern University felt that their football celebration was still too cramped. So they turned pyromaniac and burned and abandoned fraternity house. Even after firemen and policemen dragged them away, and put out the fire, they were determined to burn at least the wooden stands around the old athletic field. No doubt the Chicago Tribune will...
...remains a pleasant travelogue of Ireland, "Irish Luck" is a great picture. Beyond that it is terrible. Knowing how we felt about Mr. Meighan, the producers added insult to injury by using him in a double role, first as an American policeman and secondly as an Irish lord. It reminded us of the time that Buster Keaton took the part of the entire audience, the orchestra, and the cast, in one of his earlier comedies. It was just about as convincing...