Word: golden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opera. It's a small town where they probably don't have opera, but the intent is good. The boss is determined to win her away from a rotter, and does, though the wisdom of the exchange is doubtful. Dustin Farnum is the boss with the golden heart and leather neck...
...wood Broun: "Best of all American comedies-an authentic nugget in this the golden age of the American theatre...
Fashion, or Life in New York. A milestone of the drama, this American comedy of manners was first produced in 1840 when the metropolis was only beginning to bustle. Its revival demonstrates how far the Theatre has advanced since its so-called Golden Age. Merely to recite its plot indicates that the very cinema has progressed beyond this stage. Snobbish Mrs. Tiffany, by aping the extravagances of French society, drives her husband into forging. That puts him in the power of a confidential clerk; but stay! he is saved in the last act by an old friend, a wealthy upstate...
...authentic nugget in this golden age of the American theatre...
...probably it isn't so very dreadful after all, except as showing that boys will be boys--and men, men. It has been said in refutation of the "Golden Age" theory that the first man born into the world killed the second. After that he probably formed a club, and excluded his children, who probably formed separate clubs and excluded everybody they could think of. All of which finally led to the Tower of Babel--the paradise of clubs where nobody had to talk to anybody because nobody spoke the same language...