Word: lights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...keep alive the veneration for Italy as our country of origin and as the eternal light of civilization and greatness...
Murray Hill. Leslie Howard†† is so securely one of our best imported English light comedians that anything he is acting in comes already guaranteed. He is not, as yet, one of our' best playwrights and as far as this (his first effort) goes, the guarantee must be tempered with a hint that Murray Hill is only fairly funny. Mr. Howard has written of spinsters horrified by intoxicated men-about-town; of a will which promises golden future to a young man if he behaves. But he does not. There are two mixed identities and an urbane love...
Jimmie's Women. Jimmie's woman was really his wife. In a farce she would be. But before this purifying fact came to light the audience had been led laughing, but not immoderately, through the mazes of one of those farces with a will in "it. This will decreed that Jimmie should marry a woman of his guardian's choice. Jimmie could not see it and had a way of running off with an actress for Atlantic City weekends. Thereby he nearly lost a fabulous fortune. There are audiences who will eat it up and some...
...Well, it was so doggone hot up there right under the light that the bed-bugs crawled out of the old seat upholstery and she was scared stiff when they started to bite...
...Crimson flying in victory over the lecture hall is not all that could be desired by a crowd returning from the Stadium. A university may be justly proud of its rank in scholastic groups, but as high a place in the field of athletics need not dim the light of intellectual achievement nor vitally affect the greater glory of the mind...