Word: mertonism
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half score or more years ago George S. Kaufman wrote a musical comedy with Marc Connelly and peddled it about the town without success (it was produced eventually as Be Yourself and ran for several months) ; then Dulcy; To the Ladies; Merton of the Movies; Helen of Troy, New York; The Beggar on Horseback; and Minick. With the exception of the last, which he wrote with Edna Ferber, he has collaborated on these plays with Mr. Connelly. This year they split, Mr. Kaufman's first musical by himself will be The Cocoanuts, for the Marx Brothers, and his first play...
...ditty .entitled, Be My Charm Mama, and I'll Be Your Soda Pop. But alas! there are no such songs. For this production, not a musical comedy, seeks to explore further the vein of Merton of the Movies, The Show Off-to be gracious, tactful, gay- in short, to be charming. The first act-the most amusing first act of the current season-achieves this, but in the second the plot lifts its girlie-girlie face, and ghosts of the unsung ballads interrupt the accomplished small-town gabbing of Maidel Turner, and the adept gaucheries of Drug Clerk Kenneth...
...above quotation is taken from the winning essay in the prize essay competition conducted by the Union. It was written by Idris Deane Jones 1G., of Oxford, England. Jones is a tutor at Merton College, Oxford, and is now studying at the University on a leave of absence. The prize-winning essay is printed herewith...
...Hillis, Brooklyn Bishop Edwin H. Hughes, Maiden, Mass. Lynn H. Hough, Detroit Charles E. Jefferson, Manhattan Bishop Francis J. McConnell, Pittsburgh Bishop Wm. F. McDowell, Washington, D. C. Mark A. Matthews, Seattle William P. Merrill, Manhattan G. Campbell Morgan, London, Eng., at present in Manhattan Joseph F. Newton, Manhattan Merton S. Rice, Detroit Frederick F. Shannon, Chicago Robert E. Speer, Manhattan John T. Stone, Chicago William A. Sunday, Winona Lake, Ind. George W. Truett, Dallas Ernest F. Tubble, Evanston, Ill. James I. Vance, Nashville
Edna Ferber originally wrote this chonicle as a short story-Old Man Minick. George S. Kaufman (coauthor of Dulcy, Merton, Beggar on Horseback, etc.) helped her turn it into a play. Between them they very nearly did a masterpiece. The play is amusing, deeply touching in spots, but overshoots the mark by a too tenacious realism. The characters are types rather than individuals. The detail becomes too authentic...