Word: nugent
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...Poor Nut. If you are opposed on principle to plays in which the actors parade as undergraduates with huge capital letters on their chests, you may dislike this one, by J. C. and Elliott Nugent. It has a track meet on the stage and a love scene at a fraternity dance. Under such severe handicaps, it manages to be a genial and, at times, an uncommonly amusing comedy...
...vaudeville experience of J. C. Nugent is usually visible through the fabric of the manuscript. His lack of simplicity and directness of attack on a full-length play diffuse the cumulative effect. His playing is characteristic. Elliott Nugent contrives miraculously to look and talk in a manner actually reminiscent of college boys. Ruth Nugent is pretty and Mary Shaw gives a notable performance as the Irish cook...
...Rising Son is a family matter with the name Nugent on the invitations. J. C, Elliott and Ruth Nugent, best recalled for Kempy, tell another of their artless histories and in the telling unloose a moderate amount of laughter...
...plot is concerned there really isn't much of any. People fall in love with the wrong people and are noisily reprimanded. The servant in the house, played expertly by Helen Broderick, causes most of the laughter. Vivian Martin, Elliott Nugent and Cornelia Otis Skinner add favorable contributions...
...peace? It is certainly a clever bit of editorial burlesque to state your belief in. "The lasting establishment of the League of Nations under the guidance of a Republican Administration supported by such leaders as Root, Hughes, Taft, Hoover, and Wiekersham" as against "The Democratic hegemony of Taggart, Nugent and Tamany Hall". It would be closer to the truth, the of course detrimental to your argument, to say that you believe that Harding, indorsed by Johnson, Borah, Lodges, Moses, Viereck, and other radical politicians and admittedly pro-Ger- man schemers, will change not only his opposition to any League...