Word: lover
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There are quantities of people who condemn a play because it happens to be unpleasant. Their idea of the Theatre is a place to go for a good laugh or a tug of war among the heart strings. The preponderance of this type of drama lover has killed many a fine play in its deserving youth. For these A Man's Man is a good play to stay away from...
...because the young man had virtually no redeeming feature. The woman he married was elderly and not particularly attractive. In the background was the girl he really loved. By the end of the second act she was also tired of poverty and about to take an even more elderly lover. Then her young man shot his wife and a few minutes later himself. The acting was only fair...
...will make of the gentlemen at Washington the "Guardians" of the state, but a textbook of bunkum and blither, a composite of the formulae of all the successful political Barnums of American history--that, and that alone, is the desire of the garrulous editor of the American Mercury. A lover of the pragmatic, he believe that what works best is best. And, since bunkum is effective, bunkum is best. To fool most of the people most of the time is all that Mr. Mencken can desire. Of course, that is rather simple with the people so guileless, so ready...
...Significance of any new work of Miss Gather's is that it is likely to be a permanent addition to the national library. She is one of the major artists of our time, austere, subtle, yet warmblooded. A great lover of shapes and surfaces, she permits herself to handle only a few significant ones and those thoughtfully, accurately. A facile psychologist, she ferrets out the secrets of human action in near-at-home areas of the spiritual plane rather than in those physiological resorts whose vogue seems to increase with their distance from normal life. The Professor...
...mother in the case is edging into middle age reluctantly. She has devices to stay beautiful; she has no brains; she has a lover. Her son's fiancee and the lover are attracted honestly; want to marry. The son, a neurotic, effeminate youth, bursts into helpless hysteria. It is this last part that Mr. Coward plays; nervously, overpoweringly. Several other characters are English players from the London company. Particularly is the mother's part effective as played by Lillian Braithwaite. And, lest this superlative and swift synopsis should suggest tragedy, be it said that The Vortex is a comedy...