Word: mads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last question. Last, but not least. Last in the list. List while you last. I am going slightly but irrevocably mad, The Widow's had this question cold--a' babbled of green fields. Bibliography appended to the examination paper of William Demipest, undergraduate, imbecile, procrastinator. Question One. Lecture delivered at the Manter Hall School the night before last. Question Two. Lecture delivered at the Manter Hall School last night; not heard by William Demipest, but revealed to him by the man across the hall, whose memory was doubtless inaccurate. Cad! Putting the blame on some one else. Question Three. William...
...Without a little passionate, furious mad relationship to your subject you will not be able to make him live in your writings...
There is a faint mad thread of plot whereby famed Actress Cavendish nearly marries a millionaire and retires. Her lovely daughter has married; and in the third act retires from married life to the fascination of the theatre. The great character is aged Fanny Cavendish, pillar of the family tradition. She dies at the end. Thus the authors mix sorrow with breathless farce, the better to dimn the bewildering existence of this astounding family. Some fear the play is too acutely written from the inside of the theatre to appeal to audiences. The first audiences laughed resoundingly; and cried...
...Alison Skipworth is reliably funny as our old harpy. One Mary Robinson enacts as tough a creature as is permissible without frightening the audience. Donald Ogden Stewart, author of mad literature, writes herein his first lines for the stage and rouses occasional uproar...
...longing for his lost youth, sold his soul to the Devil. The Devil rejuvenated the old man and helped him seduce a young girl. Deserted and with child, the girl took refuge in a cathedral, where demons drove her mad. She killed her child and went to prison. There the young-old man visited her again. Taking refuge in prayer, she saved her own soul from the Devil. Angels came and rejoiced. Her seducer, young no more, had to go to Hell to pay the Devil's bargain. . . . President and Mrs. Coolidge, and the better part of distinguished Washington...