Word: idylle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When he returns after this idyll, his family are still so impossible that he deserts them forever for Miss Cowl. Not, however, before she has given them a rhetorical strafing which is the epitome of hokum.
Sirs: An excerpt from the staid Times Weekly Edition, London, dated from Tangier, June 28, (From Our Morocco Correspondent) and captioned A TANGIER IDYLL-Love and Pistols for Two:
Paolo and Francesca. As a picture, perhaps, with its conventional figures appearing in stained glass colors, this 32-year-old idyll by Stephen Phillips may have a place in dramatic history. However, its lack of semblance to life makes its revival now by so fine an actress as Jane Cowl...
ACTION-C. E. Montague-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Director and constant contributor to the Manchester Guardian, the late C. E. Montague is better known in this country for his mercurial newspaper idyll, A Hind Let Loose; for his satire on Englishmen at war, Right Off the Map and for the War...
KIT O'BRIEN-Edgar Lee Masters-Boni & Liveright ($2). Spoon River idyll.