Word: plays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play is from the pen of no less a person than William Somerset (Of Human Bondage) Maugham. Melodramatic in outline, declamatory in some lines, slow in the first act, it remains not a profound play, but a sensitive, skillful...
...Jealous Moon. Jane Cowl, indisputably among the more decorative of Manhattan's heroines, put herself to the perhaps necessary task of writing a play that would deserve embellishments by her upon the stage. The play was romantically sweet, about Pierrot, Columbine and Scaramouche. A designer of dolls, dreaming in far from Freudian fashion of their unfortunate intrigues, found advices in it for his own and on waking up for the epilogue, promised to be true to Judy. Jane Cowl was Judy and, in the doll-designer's dream, she played the part of Columbine...
Rainbow. The movements and the moods of Laurence Stallings are mysterious to contemplate. He wrote Plumes, a good and savage book. He wrote, with Maxwell Anderson, What Price Glory, a strong though over-rated play. Then he played with the moving pictures and the result was The Big Parade. When in Manhattan, he lives at odd hours in an inconspicuous apartment house and it was during his odd hours in the apartment house that he wrote, with Oscar Hammerstein II, Rainbow, a musical play which contains a mule and a catchy song called "I Like...
Whether the decline of the old Yale spirit or the superiority of the Harvard lateral pass play was chiefly responsible for the latter's victory, it is impossible to say. The score was 17-o, with honors to Harvard's Guarnaccia & French...
...vibrant, airy landscapes of Claude Monet, worshipper of sunlight, rapt student of motes, beams, the subtle tones of shadows. More than any other man, Monet epitomizes the impressionist movement, the realization that perceptual reality is not composed of insulated objects each of characteristic colors, but is rather a play of shapes at once defined and related by the one blazing spectrum...