Word: goodness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Saturday Review of Literature, Yale lecturer, promoter of Avon Old Farms, announced that, sorry as he was to see Pedagog French leave Yale, he was glad to get him at Avon. Said Dr. Canby: "In accepting the Provostship of Avon, he is not leaving the educational area in which good teaching and the sympathetic handling of youth are so important, but shifting his ground...
...oldest in the U. S.. was the favorite of Franz Liszt.* And almost all great pianists have made music rolls for the Ampico reproducing grands, which are also an American Piano Co. product. None would therefore deny (although they might prefer others; that American Piano Co. pianos are good pianos...
...anecdote. This poetry is lost, but the silent Meistersinger moves with a light-footedness impossible in grand opera. Clearly these capable German actors like their. material and understand it. They play the old roles slyly, fast and broadly -the whimsical Hans Sachs, the vicious Beckmesser, the hesitating Pogner. Good shots: the fracas outside Hans Sachs' shop; Beckmesser appearing before the Grand Council without his toupee...
...will play once more in Manhattan, then go westward again. Now that he is a success there will accompany him the kind of press stories the public most eagerly devours. Many will be interested to know now that he likes apples, oysters, caviar, expensive cigars; that he plays good tennis, boxes, dances, does subtle imitations of Charlie Chaplin, Lon Chaney, Pianists Wanda Landowska and George Gershwin; that O'Rossen of Paris makes his clothes, Chanel his perfume; that he is inevitably late save for engagements of one sort. When he is scheduled to appear in concert he is always...
...hypocritical, cruel, supremely selfish obstacles to the Soviet ideal. At one point he rehearses a speech about hunger with his mouth full of bread and beer. But even as Terekhine is apprehended, so the authors seem to imply that the Soviet cause will ultimately be purified. Full of good talk and temperamental skirmishes, the play reveals a sophisticated degree of analysis. It is the first production of the Theatre Guild Studio, experimental offshoot of the Theatre Guild employing its younger members. Herbert J. Biberman, onetime Guild stage manager and product of Professor George Pierce Baker's Yale School...