Word: howard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...excitement on the long shore of Lake Erie. As a "visitor in the home" the Times had been more notable for naiveté than for force or brilliance. But newspaperdom watched the movements of the Times's unhorsed chief, Publisher-Editor Earle Martin, whose transfer from the Scripps-Howard Cleveland Press last summer had given rise to the notion that the Plain Dealer was to have a worthy competitor (TIME, June 14). Earle Martin, onetime crack editor of the Scripps-Howard syndicate, was now at large again. . . . Earle Martin bought railroad tickets to Florida, said he was going fishing...
Lcud Speaker. The New Play-wrights-John Dos Passos, John Howard Lawson, Francis Faragoh., Michael Gold, Em Jo Basshe-impatient with the restraint of conventional theatre, have set up one of their own, bolstered up by the generous purse of Otto Hermann Kahn. Here, at old Bim's, now the 52nd Street Theatre, they propose to experiment with those radical dramatic forms of whose marketability the commercial producers are suspicious...
Their first production, Loud Speaker, was written by John Howard Lawson, author of Processional (TIME, Jan. 26, 1925). As expected, it is staged against a "constructivist" background and presents the subjective state of the principal characters as well as their objective actions. The virtue of such staging is that, by affording the playwright several planes of action on one stage, it allows greater flexibility than is permitted by the rigid three-walled limitations of ordinary theatre. Thus, in Loud Speaker, the candidate for governor of the State may be discovered mulling over his radio speech in one corner...
...Heidleburg Romanticism," Professor Howard, Germanic Museum...
...time of Tutankhamen's exhumation in Egypt, striking versions of Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter, together with emissaries from the Powers-not omitting the heavenly, for an angel descended blithely by pulley and wire from a third-story window, entered the Cambridge market square and there, from the subterranean public mictuary, resurrected a cigar store Indian, one Phineas...