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Word: script (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Charlot said that any act in revue, no matter how good the script is valueless without an actor whose personality will put it across. There are two kinds of shows, one that is played to a passive audience, and another that demands its hearers to meet it half way. The former type is passing, because it serves no purpose and has no effect on the audience, but give it idle pleasure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DRAMATIC ASPIRANTS START ON SPRING WORK | 3/15/1927 | See Source »

...does the poet confine his line sketches to the medium of words: paradoxically enough, he uses the medium of letters. All through the book are little pen drawings built up of alphabetic script distorted to form pictures. Here too, humor pops up without warning, notably in the sketch of a whirlwind going up a flower. In short, he who reads "The Candle in the Cabin" will find psychological symbolism verging on the profound and subte wit verging on the hilarious...

Author: By D. C. Backus, | Title: THE CANDLE IN THE CABIN. By Vachel Lindsay. D. Appleton and Co., New York. $2.00. | 2/17/1927 | See Source »

...writes a manuscript and another wants to read it, that should be a simple affair to arrange. Let Tom Writer take his script to Dick Reader, or send it by Harry Carrier. Difficulty will enter only when several thousand writers and several million readers mutually desire contact. Then Harry Carrier may not be the only one whose services are required...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battle of Booksellers | 2/14/1927 | See Source »

...gillie who makes all men laugh in Oh, Please! The latter vehicle is a rickety contraption, muscial comedy, about an actress who invades the home of the President of the Purity League while his wife is on leave of absence. Apparently the Dillingham production executives tossed Miss Lillie the script with its two good songs ( Nicodemus" and "You Know That I Know ) and its feeble lines, and told her to see what she could with it. In its profound inanity she discovers as many laughs as are to be heard in one theatre anywhere along Broadway. Gowned in a Turkish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Jan. 3, 1927 | 1/3/1927 | See Source »

Among Dr. Lowe's published works are "The Beneventan Script" and "The Bobbio Missal," commentaries on some notable ancient classics. He has also contributed historical, classical and theological reviews to contemporary periodicals. In 1922 Dr. Lowe discovered and published an unknown 6th Century fragment of Pliny's letter a find of considerable historic and literary value...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OXFORD SAVANT TO LECTURE ON MODERN FORGERY AT FOGG | 10/29/1926 | See Source »

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