Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...endless curtain speeches at the recent opening of the new Repertory Theatre, someone dropped a remark to the effect that Shakespeare and Sheridan remained always true to their art, and never lowered themselves by writing down to popular taste. Giving currency to such an idea is surely unfortunate, particularly at this time. Few play-wrights have even gauged the market with greater acumen than these two: and few ever wrote more distinctly to please the common man. It is greatly to be regretted that a play like "The School for Scandal" which was written originally for the entertainment...
...Chamberlain was "rumored to be disposed to make no official denial of the remark" last week...
...followed them himself, he has at least maintained a certain aloofness from the ridiculous. And now his eroticism of the book which, unbelieving and unregenerate to the country, has earned a prize of thirteen thousand, five hundred dollars should going precise attention. True, he is not the first to remark the trend toward folklore, toward the saga which is so patent to observing eyes. But in defining as good, as strong. "Wild Geese." Miss good, Miss Martha Ostenso's first novel he professor a firm, belief in the esoteric simple, a belief which will always continue the fundament on which...
After one of the early nights of the run, a brilliantly dressed young husband and wife were heard to remark on leaving that the evening was an insult. Probably it is a trifle too true for their correct intelligence. Yet in deference to just such correct intelligence the Theatre Guild expurgated the play the evil-minded?and still immensely moving to the thoughtful...
Those who consider that the main argument against the League of Nations is a reiteration of the often ill advised statement, that it is, after all, powerless to do any real good, will do well to remark the present success of the League in silencing the war threats and rifles of the Greeks and Bulgars. In the days before the League was thought of, the Balkan states were always the sore spot of Europe. Not only delighting in the tinsel of melodrama, they liked a bit of the shooting and sword play which goes with the tinsel. So every...