Word: mill
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Mill. Science...
Polish is an essential to the musical comedy gem and it can come only as the result of constant cutting, burnishing and reburnishing. This form of polish is the chief lack of "The Love Mill" as we see it in its youthful newness. The basic qualities of musical glitter and comedy brilliance are present, but to bring them out really successfully a process of careful smoothing and refining must be gone through. There is here also the sincere attempt on the part of the producer to give more than just the average "show." Cast, costumes and scenery reflect much care...
...battle was formerly a thing of hours and a few square miles; it took its name from a town, and sometimes, when no town was near, from some handy object, Chrysler's Farm, Gaines' Mill, Pittsburg Landing, Shiloh Church. Now a battle is what a campaign used to be, a thing of months, stretching over an expanse of territory, the course of a river, perhaps a province. The battle of Champagne, the battle of Bukowina, the battle of the Dobrudja, are already historic names. In one such battle, as that of the Somme, there may be many small campaigns...
...play let him hie himself to Ye Wilbur Theatre where the rollicking musical comedy, "Very Good Eddie," is on view. There are songs and jokes and girls enough there to please the most blase, and the cast of principals could hardly be bettered. Not since Victor Herbert's "Red Mill" has a musical show of this order contained such tuneful melodies as Jerome Kern has written, and, wonder of wonder, "Very Good Eddie" has a really truly plot...
...band of coaches who are not thinking much at the present time about November, and what this man or that man may or may not do; they are teaching basic football along standard lines, plodding slowly, deliberately, working with infinite capacity for detail. It's a slow-grinding mill sometimes. The results may be dilatory and alarming; the preliminary games may often cause nightmare; even late October may afford food for foreboding; but in the end the system will have its way and a squad of men clad in crimson jerseys--among other garb--will appear upon the sore November...