Word: plays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...glad Sir Austen Chamberlain is restored to health,? because now I can start to criticize him! As for Lord Cushendun(t) he is just a lay figure, stuffed and wound up to play the records placed on his gramophone. The Tory foreign policy is not mere folly, it is madness...
...very painful to observe that Lee Simonson's settings, in which a pointed arch at the back of the stage became a frame for pictures of the sky or country, and Wolfgang Zeller's curious songs, were far superior to the play itself. Possibly this was due to the dull fervors of translation; but the only epigram which Mephistopheles achieved, though he was forever trying, was this: "He died like a good Christian for he had much to repent...
...back to football. I feel in a confidential mood today. I'll tell you all about the Army game. Sh-h-h! Harvard will score in the first seven minutes of play, two lateral passes from Guarnaccia to French playing a big part. French will kick the goal. Score at end of first quarter, Harvard 7, Army...
...audience is expected to be enormous, in spite of a stiff tariff. As in all audiences part can be expected to appreciate the play, and applaud opportunely, while the rest will be good Romans. During the intermission there will be a feature act in mule-driving. This weeks drama promises to be one of the best early season wows, leading up to the final bow-wow. You will know the play in over when the whistle blows and the actors drop their work. Push, do not walk, to the nearest exit...
...dawns on him that he is not appreciated. That the hero of Podunk is completely obscured at West Point! And in him, perhaps, is born the realization that he is important only as one of the Corps; that he must be a part of the team or not play at all that he must learn subordination of self to command...