Word: kester
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Dates: during 1921-1921
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...their native land to the chariot-wheels of Convention. Indeed, most of the contemporary French work which filters through to this country shows that lack of spontaneity which results from adapting life to the stage and not the stage to life. Nor are Kistmaecker and the adaptor--Paul Kester--any exceptions to the rule: for while the dialogue is occasionally interesting, the plot is hopelessly stereotyped. Thus such lines as, "Pan--that gay little goatlegged god with so much pep"; "The poet who sent me a song written on asbestos", and "This is not dancing--it's osteopathy", received...