Word: mained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Metropolitan opens its history with Adolphe Menjou in "The King on Main Street" an amusing and sophisticated farce on the troubles of Kings and things in general. Menjou lifts a supercilious eyebrow, shrugs a careless shoulder, and winks a languid eye with all the nonchalance generally associated with Kings. His affair with the Swedishly attractive Gretta Nisson has all the clever subtlety that made "The Marriage Circle" popular not so very long ago. Menjou's gallant courtesy in the latter part of the picture comes as near to wistful romance as a King very well can. So there...
Metropolitan--"The King on Main Street," continuous...
Metropolitan--"The King on Main Street." continuous...
...list of plays under consideration are: "The Goat Song," an Austrian drama by Werfel; "Danton," by the French writer Romain Rolland; "The Main Thing," by the Russian Evreinov; a German play "Montezuma," by Hauptmann. "The Freaks," an Italian work of Pinero; and two English plays "Prisoners of War." "The Masque of Venice" by Gribble, and "The Insect Comedy," by the Czecho-Slovakian dramatist, Capek...
...with the Frenchman. "Il ne s'agit pas de cela." It is not a question of the results which would arise either from the suppression of the investigation and teaching of evolution, or from the freedom to continue such investigation and teaching. Each side of the controversy dodges the main issue when it asks about the possible outcome of a dissemination of evolutionary theory. When the scientist approaches the solution of a new problem, he does not hesitate to search for the truth of the matter, regardless of whether or not this truth may controvert some of his previous opinions...