Word: merite
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...doubles matches are just beginning and little tennis of merit is anticipated...
...student in the University of California, has just been declared the winning manuscript in a competition for a $1000 Scholarship Award, offered six months ago by Carl Laemmle, President of the Universal Pictures Corporation to students of American Colleges for the motion picture scenario of the greatest merit. In announcing the award, Mr. Laemmle declared that "The Throw Back" had been selected from among some thousand scenarios by the committee of award because it was "the most original, the best written, and the most adapted to the requirements of the Universal Studio...
...received a severe jolt when, in a large, expensive book, Rembrandt and His School.* Dr. John Charles Van Dyke, Professor of the History of Art at Rutgers College, attacked the alleged Rembrandt myth, assiduously fostered by critics, collectors and the public, which has ascribed over 800 paintings of varying merit to the master. He finished by conceding authenticity to a scant 35. The rest of the works commonly attributed to Rembrandt, he claims, are by Eeckhout, Bol, Kolnick, Horst, Fabritius, Backer, de Gelder and other pupils, copyists, or imitators of Rembrandt, and since the great Hollander's vogue became...
...truth is, he does not dwarf the rest of the performance at all. Every act is a masterpiece of its kind. Everyone has heard of the Wooden Soldiers, and of Katinka and her inexorable polka, but in vigor of execution, in recognition of artistic requirements and in sheer merit, these two most popular scenes scarcely outdo the others. The music throughout is so far above the level of the American vaudeville that one hesitates to apply that classification to the Russian counterpart. The voices are really musical,-except, of course, when they are intentionally harsh for obvious effects...
...ribald. Besides, there is the beautiful duet called "Silence", the exquisite scenic effect of the "See-Saw" and perfect artistry of the "Minuet", and perhaps there are now one or two of the sixteen which have not been touched. But after all; too much cannot be said of the merit of these Russians; they are distinctive, they are refreshing, and in America, they are unique...