Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whether it be taken as a "key" play and a penetrating satire of the contemporary stage, or whether it be viewed as good old-fashioned rough-house, the Harvard Dramatic Club's revised version of Sheridan's "The Critic," which opened last night for a three-day run at the Peabody Playhouse, provides healthy entertainment. In the original Sheridan told his contemporaries that entertaining was better than preaching, and many will see in this revival a revival of that warning directed at present-day dramatist. Others will see merely the H.D.C. gone slightly berserk...
...Congressional critics of WPA needed a shining target to shoot at in the coming session, Aubrey Williams, the gaunt, zealous, wavy-haired, hollow-eyed social worker who is Harry Hopkins' Deputy Administrator, last week supplied one. Mr. Williams makes speeches extemporaneously or from rough notes. He is the man who last summer blurted at the Workers' Alliance to "keep your friends in power" in the elections. Last week, addressing the Southern Conference for Human Welfare at Birmingham, Ala. (see p. 13), where he used to work in a store, Deputy Williams was heard...
Like the Fauves, the artists of "The Bridge" aimed, with some notable successes, to produce an immediate emotional effect by broad, simple, rough painting...
...Allied Authors of New York went a script written by Convict No. 59727 of San Quentin Prison. Though burdened with four different titles, it was minus part of Act I. Cause: prison censorship. Author's explanation of cause: "It was a love scene and may have been considered rough...
...went to 38-year-old Fred Jacoby Jr. Son of an outboard body builder (Jacoby Flyaway), Driver Jacoby has no peer among the fast-growing fraternity of rough riders who spend their summers bumping around U. S. waterways, kneeling in little, flat-bottomed boats they call flying shingles-with life preservers round their necks and a yapping whine in their ears. Professional Jacoby's total of 25,897 points† (in 20 regattas) this season was 10,000 more than his nearest rival (amateur or professional), and his feat of outscoring all other drivers this year for the third...