Word: fosterers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...authorship and Chicago success. The metropolis viewed it tepidly before the opening. Whereupon it turned out to be a decidedly amusing U. S. comedy of love and kindred complications, and Broadway critics were pleasantly and enthusiastically surprised. Perhaps they liked the leading actress best of all. She is Claiborne Foster, a capable young miss more or less given in the past to doing flapper parts in moderate plays. It was she indeed who had the lead in Applesauce in Chicago. Which may account for the success of Mr. Conners' earlier concoction there...
Gypsy Fires. If you sat down with a pair of scissors you could probably cut this concoction up into very small pieces and conclude that not one of them meant anything at all. Fitted together as they are, they form a fairly fervent melodrama and give Lillian Foster a chance for a lot of acting...
...Miss Foster plays a gypsy miss who falls in love with a young man in a clean shirt and plus fours. Her hook-nosed grandmother fulminates gutterally against her marrying an effete outsider, and his parents kick and scream at the conception of a lady tramp entering their highly starched family. Matters are further mangled by a gypsy lover, who hopes to solve the situation by poking a knife through the breast pocket of the intruding clean shirt...
That student conference at Wesleyan University, culminating in proposals for the reform of football, recalls an issue which has been discussed for a full decade. Do athletics, especially intercollegiate athletics, promote or hinder the cause of education? President W. T. Foster of the Reed College at Portland, Oregon, has been one of the most outspoken in condemnation of what he calls "exaggerated emphasis" on college sports. He asks our attention to "the weaklings among the undergraduates who spend their hours in cheering a football hero and their money in betting on him, while the man of highest achievement in scholarship...
...other phenomenon of the post-war college generation is of greater import than this disappearance of undergraduate concern in matters of politics, government, economics, and social justice. A decade ago the philosophy of liberalism possessed a powerful appeal to college men; even radicals like Scott Nearing and William Z. Foster had their adherents by the thousand. But the post-war period has thrown these ideals into the discard, and students now have turned to other fields of thought. If the students of today are the leaders of tomorrow, as so often is alleged, then these facts augur poorly...