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Word: lover (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Unlike most stage Mammas, she is the dea ex machina who brings about a happy ending. She counsels son-in-law: "I would rather see my daughter nurse a black eye in her husband's home than a lover on the ocean. "Thereupon the hero slaps his wife's face and she , promptly flutters repentant into his forgiving arms. The audience is left to imagine the happiness that might have ensued had he taken a cane to her. The play may be applesauce to Philosopher Keyserling, but it is caviar to a dull season, for it is smartly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Feb. 21, 1927 | 2/21/1927 | See Source »

...Gamache '27 plays the part of Tom Mixer, the jealous lover, while the comedy element is taken care of by L. W. Grossman 1 G B as Jimmy and C. R. Frazier '27 playing the part of a Spanish girl Dolores Casanova...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "SHOOT THE WORKS" TO HAVE PREMIERE TONIGHT | 2/18/1927 | See Source »

Died. Col. William Lawson Peel. 77, banker, music lover; of heart failure; in Atlanta. What Otto H, Kahn is to New York, what Samue1 Insull is to Chicago, Colonel Peel has been to Atlanta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Feb. 14, 1927 | 2/14/1927 | See Source »

...shockingly Bohemian actors and actresses who strutted in famed Sadler's "Wells" during the reign of good Queen Victoria. To the zip-gobbling audiences of this day, the play offers mellow humor and pathos-qualities whose commercial values are doubtful. To the student of the theatre, to the lover of stage personalities, it is irresistable. Dramatist Pinero in Trelawny has created a young playwright-one whose theories and struggles against the theatrical traditions of the time were those of Sir Arthur himself. Young Tom Wrench abhors the long, pompous speeches; his characters speak like human beings. Scornfully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Feb. 14, 1927 | 2/14/1927 | See Source »

...lover who is also an enthusiast for wild nature, an exhibition of paintings of wild animals by Carl Rungins now being held at the Casson Galleries at 576 Boylston street, should present many attractions, while one with a taste for water colors might well take a trip to the Grace Horne Gallery or the Copley Gallery. Even the Vagabond who wanders further and finds himself at Wellesley, could do worse than go to the Farnsworth Art Museum there and see an original portrait by Tinforetto. But it is hardly to be expected that such a one would be interested...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 2/12/1927 | See Source »

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