Word: foreword
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Contents. In An Autobiographical Foreword* the poet (whose personality is probably better known to a larger number of more diverse audiences than that of any other living American bard) devotes 28 pages to reminiscences of his youth, answering with kindly humor the thousand-and-one foolish questions any writer of prominence is always asked about himself and his work, and attacking the popular newspaper legend that pictures him as a noisy apostle of poetical jazz. He explains his love for Egypt; his admiration for Poe; his forbears; his reason for going on the road, a new beggar-troubadour, trading...
...anthologist is not a happy one", as Mr. Frank Shay assures us that it is not in his "Foreword" to the "Twenty Contemporary One Act Plays--American" he has recently edited, the lot of the reviewer of such a work is not the least bit happier. Not only does he strike the difficulty that persons seem to disagree more over the merits of a play than over those of any other from the writing, but also that of writing an adequate criticism of twenty one-act plays in less time and space than the reviewer can allow or be allowed...
...applications for permission to produce, and the bibliographies of books about, and plays of the "Little Theatre". For the reader, on the other hand, who would take up the book as a matter of enjoyable reading only, there are two important elements lacking. To begin with Mr. Shay's "Foreword" is inconsequential, where it could have been a brief survey of the "Little Theatre" movement in America, with special mention of the different groups which gave first production to a number of the plays included in the collection. The other element of which one notices particularly the absence...
...watch the American nation speeding, with invincible optimism, down the road to destruction. I seem to be contemplating the greatest tragedy in the history of mankind." So says Professor William, McDougall in the foreword of his book of lectures in which he shows that social stratification is an index of innate moral and intellectual qualifications. This seems to be a time for pointing out lessons; yet it may not be inappropriate to show one very obvious duty which confronts the college graduate today, and that is the duty to help check, if possible, the progress of the nation...
...Majestic Theatre on Wednesday evening, for the first time in Boston Mr. D. W. Griffith presented "Dream Street", a dramatic comedy, suggested by characters of Thomas Burke in "Limehouse Nights" In the Foreword in the program, Mr. Griffith acknowledge that the ideas of the photoplay we taken for two stories, "Gina of Chinatitown" and "The Sign of the Lamp". And yet while they were the small eiders, they were somehow changed in the transition from page to screen; made more romantic--although Burke is always romantic; and more cheerful, and the whole, while retaining all there interest...