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...modern play, a play in which the action deserts the wings on several occasions for the very stage itself; a circumstance quite out of the classical French tradition. An invasion of her castle grounds by a mob and the epilogue wherein she is guillotined furnish her with the harshest of realities. And Madame Sorel treats them with that same graceful, classic restraint which leaves them empty of matter however admirable the form. Give her an abstraction of the more important realities and a concretion of the trivialities and she is more than a forthright American mind can demand and almost...
...wishes of the founder, of creating a feeling of suspicion rather than of good will on the part of the public in its educational programs, of never having given a musical entertainment as specified in the second clause of the will, of never having assisted the Metropolitan Opera Company. Harshest of criticism was leveled at Secretary Noble, "a misfit ruling with an iron hand," cleaver always to the policy of utmost secrecy...
...Street has again put forth one of the true delights of the theatrical season. They have taken a Spanish comedy, translated by Helen and Harley Granville-Barker, produced in London as long ago as 1920, and brought it to America in as feathery and fascinating a manner as the harshest skeptic could desire...
...Gardner at Oakmont three years later was payment for a budnipping that occurred in the third round of that Merion affair. Francis Ouimet administered the budnipping at the Engineers' Club (Roslyn, L. I.) in 1920, Willie Hunter at St. Louis in 1921, Jess Sweetser at Brookline, Mass., in 1922 (harshest ever, 8 and 7), and Max Marston at Flossmoor (Chicago) in 1923. So far as his match play went, it appeared that Jones was a psychopathic case...
Although the spring may appear late, the harshest of winter winds cannot delay the exercise of the CRIMSON's annual prerogative of proclaiming Straw...