Word: leveling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Score another for Feminism! the cult whose fundamental plank man has so impudently presumed to assail,-the movement which would tumble woman from her reverential pedestal to the same gross level of Masculinism. But man can take his comfort in the fact that nicotine stains on the fingers that get his breakfast will not measurably affect its flavour. And as for woman: from the Saint Regis to the Pre "Cat" she may forever puff her "scented" in peace...
...carefully distinguished from the revolving stage which has been used in American theatres. This type enables a rapid shift of scenery, but the number of scenes can not be any greater than usual without making, the stage too small. It is impossible to get any effect except the usual level surface...
...professional stage are bound to be costly and often failures. It is through University cent5res of the 47 Workshop type that experiments can best be tried out, and if successful developed on the stage Unless gone about in some way such as this, attempts to raise the level of the American drama will be on the whole no more successful than attempting to raise one's self by one's boot-straps. Experiments on the professional stage without that scorned attribute, business success, can never hope to accomplish a permanent reform. Until the representative audience can appreciate a steady diet...
Captain Gray was the only entrant to mark-up a perfect score, but three 98 cards in a row served, to lift the average to a winning level. The yearlings shot as follows...
...past few years, would get the long looked for opportunity to play in roles of their own choosing. The public would have a standard by which to measure the private productions of Belasco, the Shuberts, the Theatre Guild, and the rest; forcing the managers to keep at their best level. The opportunity for the revival of old plays, classics, and above all the education of popular taste, although the latter is sometimes questioned as an advantage would at least have for the first time a thorough trial; and a school for training actors, so long the cry of the critics...