Word: older
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bells. In this season of recurrent revivals, almost any student of the older theatre could have foretold that this veteran success of Henry Irving's would be dragged out and done again. This same student might also have foretold the futility of the attempt. The Bells is an old melodrama of Alsace, in which the Burgomaster had murdered a wandering seed merchant 15 years before. Any doubt in this matter is completely cleared up when the Burgomaster stops the second act for about five minutes to reconstruct the crime in soliloquy. Rollo Lloyd played the part and did well...
...English country gentleman-Mr. George H. Doran. There was a firm-jawed, genial Virginian-John Macrae, president of E. P. Button & Co. There was a well-preserved gentleman of some 67 summers, upon whose watch-chain hung a small gold ivy leaf-Arthur Hawley Scribner, who with his older brother Charles has carried on the business begun by their father in 1846. The swarthy gentleman whose dress, manner and accent bespoke the complete cultured cosmopolite was Alfred A. Knopf, master of the coursing Borzoi hound; the handsome lady with him -Mrs. Knopf...
...editors and contributors- there was no chief among Editors Egmont Arens, Joseph Freeman, Hugo Gellert, Michael Gold, James Rorty and John Sloan-included some of the mainstays of the older magazines, especially artists: the powerful Gellert, convulsive William Gropper, sly Art Young with his tongue in his foxy-grandpa cheek. But for the most part they were new hands-economic malcontents and idealists recruited from the younger generation. There were names like Klein, Lozowick, Soglow and Dehn signed to some of the pictures. A young lady called Wanda Gag contributed a startling portrait of "The Tired...
Over the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan last week hung a cheerful serenity; all was in array in the new south wing (opened for the first time) with its huge Roman court and 29 galleries. These complement the older 75 galleries and offices, permit proper display of all collections...
...onetime monarch last week ascended what used to be called his throne. But while it may be shown that the youth of the nation no longer tenders baseball prime allegiance, fathers and grandfathers, uncles and great uncles, and probably lots of older brothers and cousins and perhaps some female relatives, still believe in the diamond as the centre of national sport. They turned out by the thousand in various sections of the country to see the first balls of the year pitched in National and American League parks...