Word: personable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...correspondent of the New York World, it comes, like so many plays this season, from London. The story is of Peter Standish, young U. S. citizen living in his ancestral London townhouse, who likes the 20th Century so well that he suddenly finds himself back in it in the person of his great-great-grandfather. But while he has the visage of this distant sire, he retains his own 20th Century consciousness, which makes for much discomfort and disappointment...
George Bernard Shaw: "It is impossible to have a state of affairs in which one person may shoot another and then allege it was a sort of suicide by deputy. Suicide cannot be permitted by deputy...
Keith-Albee--Rod La Roque in "The Delightful Rogue". Viola Dana in person...
Metropolitan--Colleen Moore in "Footlights and Fools". Morton Downey in person...
...London opening last fortnight the play had fair success. Actress Foster is not the only person Critic Hannen Swaffer has belittled. He once called Playwright George Bernard Shaw "a tiresome old driveller." Playwright Shaw did not smack Critic Swaffer's face. Instead, at the annual luncheon of the Critics' Circle last month in London, when Toastmaster St. John Ervine divided dramatic critics into three kinds?"critics, reporters and Hannen Swaffer"?Shaw said all dramatic critics were very bad, compared Swaffer to the late great Playwright-Critic William Archer,* said that Archer was worse...