Word: plays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White Steed (by Paul Vincent Carroll; produced by Eddie Dowling) is, thematically, much the same play as Carroll's Shadow and Substance. But it is a better play. Shadow and Substance leaned too heavily on portraiture; The White Steed also has plot. Shadow and Substance was enveloped in a cloud of mysticism; The White Steed shows the warm flesh of humanity. Shadow and Substance had too literary a finish; The White Steed is often combustibly dramatic...
Pleading guilty last week to using the line-and also to presenting another Odets play, I Can't Sleep-without authorization, all ten were fined $7.50, put on probation for a year...
...Yellowed Nineties which gave it birth, it has the pasty look and studied jauntiness of an elderly fop. The steady ticktock of its epigrams is broken only when one of them happens to chime. As Wilde said of the youthful Max Beerbohm, the gods have endowed the play's elegant, orchidaceous young men with the gift of perpetual...
...their remarkable but so far inexplicable treatment in the Canadian Medical Association Journal last week, there may have been a direct relationship between ears and sex organs. Although the scientists cautiously refrained from stating that constitutional deafness is an endocrine disease, they did say that "sex hormone may still play a role in the physiology of hearing today...
Pompous Frank Gannett of Rochester, N. Y. publishes a string of dull and respectable newspapers. New Dealer Harold L. Ickes throws the most accomplished tantrums in Washington. Famed Biologist Raymond Pearl of Johns Hopkins, who likes to drink good beer and play the French horn, makes his views more articulate than most scientists. Last week these three had their say on the question "Do We Have A Free Press...