Word: grow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Either that, or things in Poictesme†are working out to natural conclusions and Mr. Cabell, as a determined realist, reports them with a deciduous emphasis so that no misapprehension may remain. Queen Freydis has faded. The hair of Melicent, once a golden net where dreams were tangled, will grow straggly and fall out. The Domnei idea (worship of women) has proved wholly untenable, and no one ever discovers a posset or cantrap to confound Koschei, the god of things as they...
...goes westward looking for Manuel. He becomes involved with most of the queens and several younger persons on this pilgrimage, but at last manages an interview with his old chief. A western god blows him home-by most Rabelaisian means -to bowse, wench, let the absurd legend of Manuel grow, and to die in his sleep...
...Grand Jury qualified to decide between indecency and art? Does Eugene O'Neill deserve the same latitude as Shakespeare? Obviously if a hidebound Grand Jury is given rein much classic and modern expression will be throttled. Obviously if the lid is lifted altogether unscrupulous producers will grow fat pandering to the peep-show instinct of the populace...
...their productions are inseparable. Such a composite picture, dealing with every aspect of the problem facing dramatist and producer--the monoply system, the democratization of art, the vastness of the playhouses, the endless litigation, financial failures, the rift between artist and public, the custom of "damning the play," the growing attitude of the T. B. M. coincident with the rise of industrialism, the conservatism of the pit, the popularity of triple bills, the indulgence of the audiences in Old Price riots--such a picture might easily have become a confusing mass of detail and lifeless documentation, but from them...
...usually nauseous triangle dramas of uneven family life. Thanks to the performance of Miss Rich and the general intelligence of the story and direction, the picture may be endured, perhaps occasionally enjoyed. This wife wearied of her dentist husband and took up with a gentleman who let his hair grow long and played the violin. The couple are overtaken in Trieste and the wife concludes that her sane and comfortable spouse is, perhaps, better after...