Word: gooding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...question that required a great deal of discussion", said Field, "was that of how much power the editor of a college paper should have. It was decided that the best way to insure good organization is for the editor to be absolute in his authority when it comes to a final decision about the policy of the paper. The committee also held the view that editorials should represent the opinion of the editors of the newspaper, not the opinion of the majority of students in the college. We all felt," he continued, "that the publications should lead, not follow...
...burn midnight oil as often as he pleases, tossing off his frothy extracts, granted he always prefaces them as well as this: "Almost all the plays in this book are religious, but religious in that dilute fashion that is a believer's concession to a contemporary standard of good manners. . . . Our Lord asked us in His work to be not only as gentle as doves, but as wise as serpents...
Operettas, of course, are all absurd and The Red Robe, adapted from Stanley Weyman's novel, is no exception. Yet it made a good play 25 years ago, in which William Faversham starred, and now it makes a gay and gaudy minstrel show for Walter Woolf. In the story of Gil de Berault, who was sentenced to death for duelling and paroled by Cardinal Richelieu in time to achieve fortune and a beautiful partner for the final curtain, there is proper material for brocaded dresses, sword play, romantic songs and fustian foolery. All this has been contributed. Helen Gilliland...
...time of plenty but not always one of jollity. While the holly wreaths hang high, the gloomiest producers, among them Gustav Blum, creep out with their dire presentations. Blum's latest bit of hardware was not so dull as festive critics found it, though not so good as its author, Howard Chenery, tried to make...
...Robe. It is not customary, when the Shuberts produce a good operetta, for the public to howl so loudly with joy as when "Ziggy," the maestro and artist, produces a mediocre one. Thus The Three Musketeers, last spring, an elaborate musicale, provoked more ardent cheers than The Red Robe, last week, which was just as good...