Word: manner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...though the purpose is--that of attempting to improve the national moral condition--it is difficult to see how such a series of questions as those asked by the Church Advertising Association can be of much practical aid. The first "Do you believe in God"--is typical of the manner in which the questions are pre-pounded. Whether or not the reader does believe in God is a matter after all which chiefly concerns himself and one which he probably would feel rather reticent to broadcast through the column of the public press. The fact that all answers...
...Orange Comedy" is based on an old Italian play which was in turn based on a familiar-Italian nursery tale or bedtime story. The present version has nearly as much consecutive plot as good Ziegfeld revue and is staged in much the same manner. The only difference is that "The Orange Comedy" is a little less logical than a revue and a little more satirical. It is, in fact, a satirical extravaganza, in which the extravagance is more visible and more important than the satire...
Fresh in Method and Manner...
...invented a thousand entertaining pieces of business where I had left great gaps in the play--and every one of these is entirely in keeping with the major intention of the play. The result is a production which seems to me entirely fresh in method and refreshing in manner...
...Orange Comedy," is an adaptation of Gozzi's play, upon the satirical fairy story plot of which, Gilbert Seldes has imposed all manner of modernism's making it amusing parody of present-day life a sort of "Begger on Horseback" in an antique framework...