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...Pollock discussed the modern drama in general, slipping easily from anecdote to fact, and from fact to fiction. He went to lengths to denounce the decadence, immorality and sophistication of the theatre. Some of the dramatists who felt the sting of his rhetoric were O'Neill, Phillip Barry, Neel Coward and Pirandello. Shakespeare, being, fortunately, of another age, escaped. Pollock, opposed to "photographic realism," crusades for virtue, idealism, sentimentalism and the "Glory and Romance of everyday life." Certainly he has realized these aims in his plays, particularly "The Fool," "The Enemy" and his latest, "The House Beautiful," which opens next...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pollock Denounces Decadence and Immorality of the Modern Drama in Glowing Rhetorical Address Before Drama School | 10/30/1931 | See Source »

...already mentioned, is as follows: H. L. Brinsmade, B. D. Brooker, H. I. Cammer, T. McP. Davis, R. E. Ela, J. J. Fine, C. Gottesman, V. Q. Harmon, R. E. Kopp, I. I. Krug, S. J. Liftin, G. D. Martin, J. B. Mossitte, E. F. Morris, R. E. Mumford, Phillip Nichols, J. F. Rich, A. J. Rockwell, J. Rosenberg, R. H. Ryan, D. C. Sachs, J. D. Shoaff, W. M. Simon, E. P. Simpkins, Jr., J. B. Tittman, and J. C. Weir. These men are in the second and third year classes at the Law School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LEGAL AID SOCIETY'S OFFICERS FOR THE YEAR | 10/2/1931 | See Source »

...improvement of toxophilites a book by Phillip - Rounsevelle, published by Barnes, called Archery Simplified, last week appeared in the bookstalls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Swill | 7/13/1931 | See Source »

...coordinating influence of the cause of their common religion. Before this time religion has overthrown kings, emperors, and dictators who seemed to be in a far more impregnable position than the present head of all Italy. James II lost his crown because of religious difficulties and modern England arose; Phillip of Spain lost the rich province of Holland due to his extreme religious views...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHURCH OR STATE | 6/1/1931 | See Source »

...myriad of mighty companies, also of less prosperous ones such as American Woolen, Armour & Co., International Agricultural Corp. Proposed to stand beside him were General Cornelius Vanderbilt, whose directorships include Chase National Bank, Illinois Central Railroad, and Saratoga Association for the Improvement of the Breed of Horses; Phillip Ream Clarke, president of Central Trust Co. of Illinois; Frank Overton Watts, chairman of First National Bank in St. Louis; George Monroe Moffett, vice president of Corn Products Refining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Large Ghost Laid | 4/20/1931 | See Source »

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