Word: parkerisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Down East (Fox), like The Three Musketeers (see above), is an effort to redistill for the sophisticated audiences of modern talking pictures the elixirs which their predecessors found so stimulating many years ago. The 1920 production of Lottie Blair Parker's classic grossed $2,000,000 and the scene in which Lillian Gish floundered toward a happy ending through the ice-cakes probably drew as many tears as anything else David Wark Griffith ever directed...
...keep in touch with what is being written. In practice they usually seem bored or completely baffled by scores which they hear once and seldom ever again. Critics are of little help when they attempt to pass judgment. When Symphony: 1933 was played in Boston, the late Henry Taylor Parker said in the Transcript: "The first movement gives off an American eagerness and boldness and exuberance - of the West rather than the East, where a too insistent gospelling about security has damned adventure and abundance. The finale, surcharged though it is with an inexhaustibly varied counter point, marches gallantly, confidently...
...Parker House...
...father are reported to be at the Parker House in Boston. while his emissary, either Colonel Charles R. Apted '06, or Arthur J. Santry '12, have announced his willingness to appear for questioning, police doubt if they will see him before Monday...
Last week Robert Allerton Parker recounted the complex history of the Oneida Community in a biography of its founder, John Humphrey Noyes, shrewd, enlightened fanatic who expounded his theories of free love with passionate moral fervor. Carefully documented, A Yankee Saint is a mine of information on a significant development in U. S. history, succeeds in giving a comprehensive account of the ways of the Community without exploiting its absurd or sensational aspects. The Oneida Community was a serious economic and ethical experiment. Noyes, who held it together throughout his life, was a courageous and resourceful man, well-informed, sufficiently...