Word: majority
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Major Barbara might more descriptively have been titled, "A spectacular demonstration of the theory that money makes morals-complete with characters, including: one Millionaire; one Earl's Daughter or Millionaire's Wife; their Son, an imbecile sample of Young England; their two Daughters, one beautiful of face, one a Major in the Salvation Army, who tries to convert her father; two Suitors, a noisy Nitwit and a Professor of Greek who becomes by the odd and engaging circumstances of the plot, heir presumptive to the Millionaire's munition works and who, by the odd and engaging developments...
...only as megaphones through which he himself might voice his social speculations; but since it is impossible to have much interest in ideas about human problems without having first an even larger interest in the human beings who are faced with them, Shaw's plays, among them Major Barbara, are interesting for their people rather than their propaganda. Before any writer can portray Rummy Mitchens, a Salvation Army derelict, portrayed on the stage by Alice Cooper Cliffe, or Bill Walker (Percy Waram), he must have eaten humble cake in the mission houses of his trade. And before any writer...
...bright, playful people of the Theatre Guild have long gambled luckily on the golden Shaw, and they never succeed better than when they exhibit his sly profundities to their legion of supporters. Winifred Lenihan is Major Barbara, Helen Westley is her sharp-tongued mother. Elliot Cabot is the Greek professor who at one point addresses Millionaire Dudley Digges as Mephistopheles, which Dudley Digges has been in Faust, until quite recently...
Thus last week's decree was a major triumph for vitality as opposed to senescence. For although Impressionist painting is included in private collections at the Louvre it has never been received in great quantities...
Loening Aeronautical Engineering Corp. New York, N. Y. / Amphibian / Commercial & military Amphibians / . . . . .$27,900 / Major Herbert A Dargue, U. S. Air Corps, used five Loening Amphibians in his Pan-American flight...