Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said one steamship official: "We have been asked to purchase single bottles of liquors, of which we never heard. To arrange for the supply of cocktails requested would entail the stocking of a vast quantity of alcoholic materials we should never get rid of. One woman has ordered five bottles of stout, and another half a bottle of gin. On the other hand, a well-known millionaire, who is the leader of a considerable party, has ordered ten cases of magnums of champagne. But the great demand is for whisky. Scotch and Irish, in that order of preference...
When the angry crowd outside saw themselves thus shut out, they broke into a riot, with wild yells of " Down with the management!'' The noise sounded in the auditorium, but Toscannini, growing furious, relentlessly continued the performance. Several score of workmen who had contrived to get into the gallery, heard and heeded the protesting yells of their comrades outside. They grew indignant, and joined the chorus of exterior chorus. " Down with the management!" the howl from the galleries drowned the music. But such was the respect inspired by Toscannini that the disturbers in the theatre amplified their cries. "Down with...
...Marry? Clayton Hamilton, rescued from Hollywood and the motion pictures but apparently still interested in them; Robert Stead, President of the Canadian Authors' Association; William Rose Benet, planning, doubtless, to put poetry into the movies, and so on and so on. Of the speeches I heard I liked best the statement of Archbishop Hayes, read by Father Kelly of the Catholic Writers' Guild. Here, too, was Elmer Rice, author of The Adding Machine. I understand that he is to frame the statement on book censorship from the radical standpoint for the Author's League, while George Barr...
True, some of the jokes are rather mummified, but, judging by the laughter of the audience, there must be some people who haven't heard a joke in ten years. And all the other ingredients that go to make up a successful musical comedy are there in profusion. The music is catchy and pleasant?indeed some of the songs will probably afflict the flat-dweller's ear from the phonograph next door for months to come. Vivienne Segal has one of the best voices in light opera and uses it with effectiveness and precision. Richard Carle and Billy...
...actors who threw themselves into these extraordinary circumstances pleased a very large audience. If you've ever heard a crowd urge Bill Hart on in a race with death, you'll know how everyone in the theatre last Monday night was right behind Civic Virtue all the time. Encouraged by tremendous enthusiasm, the actors had a tendency to a declamatory utterance and self-consciousness the moment the action became tense, which revealed every dramatic absurdity in the play. How could they help it?-There was tremendous melodrama of life, and There was an audience craving raw meat: They...