Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What a city like Boston needs is a theatre which will, by reason of its own merit, become a permanent institution for playgoers, she said, explaining that only an actual production company, presenting Broadway successes new to Boston as well as original plays of merit at prices well within the reach of all interested in the legitimate theatre can fill this need. "This company must present legitimate dramas of the highest type; it must select plays and players with great care and keen constantly changing the members of the casts; and finally, it must please the public by giving them...
Next lead, 24 hours later: "The black war clouds which have hung over the Mediterranean all week were blown apart today. . . . Millions . . . do not yet realize how dangerous it was. . . . Today's solution has the merit of giving all three countries [Britain, France, Italy] something they can call a victory...
...phase of this question is discussed by John E. Dodge '38 in an article entitled "Autonomy of Art", in which he deplores the unfortunate tendency on the part of critics to boom all American art, regardless of its merit. A full page drawing by Alfonso Ossorio '38 symbolizes a medley of opinions...
During the performance it is impossible not to be completely immersed in the production, but the cooling effect of retrospect shows that merit of the offering lies perhaps more in the work of the two leading ladies than in the virtues of the manuscript. Zoe Atkins' dramatization of Edith Wharton's novel produces a quietly accelerating story which rises in the last act to genuinely fine drama but the play's success must be attributed in large part to the lucid, mature, and movingly sincere talents of the Misses Mencken and Anderson...
...Carnegie custom to ask gallery-goers to vote on their favorite canvases, and give a prize to the most popular picture at the exhibition's close. From past experience critics dared not hazard which this might be. but found the following pictures worthy of special merit...