Word: ruined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said William A. Brady, producer: "I sat with a group of people and enjoyed over the radio free of charge a program which I can only describe as gorgeous. . . . The plain truth is that we of the theatre are headed straight for ruin...
...former had testified, who told that Mr. Mortimer had sworn to "get" Mr. Forbes for not joining him to make illicit profits, who declared that Mr. Mortimer had threatened to drag his wife's name in the mire when she would not give fake testimony to ruin Mr. Forbes...
...belle, the consequences are most grave. If the stage prototype of their kind becomes immediately and universally popular, who can persuade the girls not to trill and warble? They all act already, but a working-girl opera, such as Mr. Kahn proposes to inflict upon the docile audience, will ruin the hearts and digestions of a whole generation of young Americans whose lives will be upset by the operatic tantrums of the "jazz baby...
...older generation is chiefly represented by Michael's father, Sir Lawrence Mont, ninth baronet, and old Soames Forsyte, collector of pictures. Catastrophe overtook these gentlemen through the Providential Premium Reassurance Society, known to its intimates as the P. P. R. S. Manager Elderson of the Society brought ruin upon it and then decamped. So they retired from the board with dignity and little else. A sub-plot-in many respects the best thing in the book-tells of the tribulations of Tony Bicket and his girl-wife, Victorine, units of the inarticulate masses. Tony was caught "snooping" books from...
...Hungary is the author, Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne the principals, the Theatre Guild the producers. The play is in a sense a revival. It was presented eleven years ago, under the name of Where Ignorance is Bliss, with William Courtleigh and Rita Jolivet. Pervading ineptitude brought rapid ruin...