Word: reasonableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there is nothing new in this world then there certainly is no reason to suppose that there is anything new in musical comedy. But originality, per se, is not necessarily a good thing. And "Yes, Yes, Yvette", the musical comedy at the Wilbur proves both these platitudinous contentions...
...short, through their practical courses in the arts of the theatre, many of our colleges are taking their place today, have indeed taken it, in the creative artistic life of America. This, I think, is a boon to America, and a deuced advance in college education. For that reason I am, as a graduate of Harvard, all the more grieved that my own university, where Professor Baker started the whole movement, has been the one ranking institution to repudiate it, and is now permitting Yale, North Carolina, Iowa, California, and so on, to influence the practical theatre arts of today...
...reason is that during the Lausanne Conference of 1923 (at Lausanne, Switzerland) the Russian representative, M. Vaslav Vorovsky, was assassinated. His alleged assassin was acquitted by a Swiss Court. For four years the Swiss Government has refused the kind of apology demanded by the Soviet Government. Ergo, no Soviet "observers" have come to League Conferences...
...exasperation, so that when a tramp herder (George Bancroft), driven by hunger for the bride, forces his way into the room Alec left in a huff, tragedy stalks along with him. The film comes as near to genuine tragedy as anything the season has witnessed. For that reason, it may prove unpopular...
...still acts. Be that as it may, this I do know: . . . 'Ford is absolutely ruthless in his treatment of the people working for him or representing him. No man, no matter how responsible his position, can feel secure. Men are fired right and left, without rhyme or reason. The Ford management is a hotbed of jealousy and intrigue...