Word: merite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...announcing the production, Mr. Lovejoy, director of the Cambridge School of the Drama said, "It should be part of the contribution of the School to produce from time to time plays of extraordinary merit which are not necessarily products of our own playwriting classes. We consider ourselves fortunate indeed to be able to present this highly significant first play of Keith MacKaye's as a part of this service to the students and the University Community. The second production of the year will be a three act play written by a student in the school this year. There...
...might do if Liberty were not, with him, a point of honor. As public evidence of loyalty to Father's enterprise, Daughter Alicia has frequently contributed articles and last week risked amused reactions of her friends by addressing Liberty's motley public in fiction without pretense to great literary merit.* Father & Daughter camaraderie is carried beyond office walls. Each has a sport biplane and a pilot's license. Capt. Patterson also maintains an amphibian yacht in which with guests and private pilots they make flights for hunting, or fishing in the Caribbean. These adventures provide meat for Alicia's articles...
...winner of the competition surpassed its competitors in almost every division of the paper. The editorial columns of the Exonian were considered to be of especial merit, while the news columns of the Hotchkiss Record were among the very best in the field. The Mercersburg News, working with a smaller circulation than some of the other papers, impressed the committee because of its general high standards in both news and editorial departments. The photographic and advertising divisions of the papers were largely over-looked because of the varying conditions and sizes...
...more coherent view would be that the Club should govern its choice of plays by an aim to contribute to the Theater; that this end may be obtained by acting pieces never before produced in America; and that when no such plays of outstanding merit are to be had, a revival of a play of another century may often present to contemporary Drama a note which it sadly lacks. The Club may offer a play produced in another century, just as it undertakes plays produced in another country: in both cases American Drama may benefit by the experiment...
...happily. This picture with Intelligent and restrained direction could have been made into the smartest satire on Big Business in some years, but the introduction of the obvious goes a long way toward making it a boring and dissatisfying film. Claudette Colbert deserves a much better part. The only merit of the stage-show is a "brother-sister" dancing team which is excellent. The news reel is slightly below its usual performance...