Word: personal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...public as well as for the shop girls and mechanics who entertain themselves on the Sabbath with the misadventures of financiers and stage beauties. Consequently, not a year passes without a tremendous sale for some book on the private affairs of the great and near great, written by a person who is blatantly on the inside of everything, and can entertain the curious with bons mots and moth-eaten scandal for four hundred pages. The Greville Memoirs (unexpurgated--think of it!) are shortly to be published in this country; and the juicier bits about Queen Victoria, Lord Byron, the late...
...ordinary person, whether in this country, or Great Britain, can gossip authentically only about the mediocre people he knows; and, while it is enjoyable, his soul yearns for something more aristocratic. This thirst after coronets has been the cause of Mr. Michael Ariens present prosperity. And, for that matter, he did well enough with imaginary peers and Honorables; but the real inside story of genuine dukes and prime ministers leaves such vapid tales absolutely nowhere. Even the "gentleman with a duster" and Margot Asquith have not sated the public's taste for what the Duke of Devonshire said when...
...audience is given to understand that that explains everything, for anything may happen in a nervous breakdown. Then, when the author has firmly established the nervous breakdown, the successful play, the handsome young nerve specialist, and the thoughtless young lady, in stalks mental telepathy. It comes in in the person of the mother of young playwright. She insinuates in no uncertain terms that the play is a steal...
...sound sleep were nothing short of marvelous. May Ediss was well cast as the mother of the wronged young man and soothed the audience with her well-bred voice. She was in great contrast to the girl's mother, played by Elspeth Dudgeon. Miss Dudgeon was the only person on the stage who was supposed to refuse to believe in telepathy, and she should have made the most of it. But any actress who germanizes her t's and g's is not elegible for our all-star cast. All in all, this was just another play to make...
...long, however, before I discarded my long conceived opinion of the hardship which a Freshman had to endure and began to realize that a Freshman at Harvard is treated like any other human being. I consider this innovation as another great step away from barbarism, for no civilized person can take pleasure in making it unpleasant for his fellow beings...