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...dramatic purist this is no doubt a fault; but for him who goes to the theatre primarily for the purpose of enjoying himself and relieving his examination-troubled spirit, it turns out to be a virtue. For while the first half of "The Road to Rome" leads through a pleasant landscape of hundred percent Roman-American rotarianism, by the end of the second milestone it has entered into the realm of true dramatic tragedy, enlivened here and there with sparkling and often rather caustic wit--which is quite as it should be. And in keeping with the subject, the scenery...
...time. He was as rampant in politics. President Hayes' administration he called "a bread pudding." A Republican from the earliest years of that party, he left it when in 1884 James G. Blaine ran for the Presidency against Grover Cleveland. He called himself a "Mugwump," a political purist. Pastor Beecher was full-blooded; dared not eat red meat. His only outdoor exercise was croquet. He died of aponlexy...
...having attended, 1904-06. The executive editor of the World, red-headed Herbert B. Swope, would have been Harvard '03 but for an accident. The lumbering World confessionist-colyumist, Heywood Broun, had sat to Harvard professors from 1906 to 1910. And the World editorial writer, Walter Lippmann, fierce purist, who had doubtless dictated the World's rebuke, had in his precocious youth completed the four-year Harvard course in three years, aged 20 ('09), and stayed a year to study philosophy...
...Their Majesties twice sought the theatre last week, twice graciously applauded able mummers- U. S. mummers. At the snug Empire Theatre, Fred and Adele Astaire delighted Royalty with that song and dance, Lady Be Good. Next evening Miss Jane Cowl brazened before the grandson of super purist Queen Victoria, in Easy Virtue. From the King-Emperor's vocal chords there issued not, last week, the baleful rebuke with which his grandmama blasted all questionable jests (even one cracked precociously in infancy by the present Edward of Wales) : "We are not amused...
...exposition in the first act. Here your stickler would cry out at the exaggeration; but possibly it was the players who underscored too heavily, and possibly the stickler who exaggerated, so finely did the action cut to the truth. In the second act, and indeed throughout the play, the purist would cavil at the lapses into broad relief; too often cleverness passed for wit, and gross business for eyebrow innuendo. For the over-dramatic, Mr. Rathbone, in the tutor's role, was the only possible offender. It was naturally as difficult for him to disclose his smouldering fires...