Word: isn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rather more than evident that Miss Morrison keeps an ear to the open window to catch her neighbors' squabbles. The chief merit in the play is the fierce joy you can derive by turning to Aunt Jane beside you and disturbing all within hearing distance with the obvious query: "Isn't that just like the Sullivans...
...plot is concerned there really isn't much of any. People fall in love with the wrong people and are noisily reprimanded. The servant in the house, played expertly by Helen Broderick, causes most of the laughter. Vivian Martin, Elliott Nugent and Cornelia Otis Skinner add favorable contributions...
...hard to be a radical even when you want to be one. Ask Magnus Johnson. He found himself at a big dinner in Washington the other night. Everybody was there. Near him sat Mr. Hoover, who isn't exactly a 'dirt farmer' radical, but spent a good deal of the evening with his arm around Magnus Johnson's shoulder. When Hoover removed that arm, it was to give President Coolidge a chance to put his arm there instead. . . . President Coolidge made a nice speech and talked more about Magnus Johnson than anything or anyone else...
...minds. A violinist played a sonata by Erich Korngold, whose father, the most important music critic in Vienna, is rather remarked for pushing his son's musical fortunes. Afterward a friend of the violinist said to him: 'Why did you play that sonata? It is bad. It isn't even grateful...
...sonata isn't grateful, but the father is,' loudly commented Rosenthal who was standing nearby...