Word: secreted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Secret...
That in place of the black-browed man with a secret sorrow and a Byronic collar we have Babbitts and Pinneys "with no brows at all and Arrow collars...
...envious eyes upon them. Lovers do their loving shyly but unaffectedly, make their pretty speeches, kiss their pretty kisses, with no thought of the thousand eyes intruding upon their sentimental privacy. It never occurs to the stage criminal that his audience might, were it so inclined, betray his secret. His trust is as implicit as it is touch- ing. Suppose, for instance, that you, leaping up from your seat in the sixth row center, were to level an accusing finger at the dissolute brother and shout in stentorian indignation: "He it was, and not the poor but honest hero...
...suppose that, clearing the footlights with one agile spring, you were to seize the hand about to sink its yellow fingers into the heroine's throat, pull the miscreant to whom it is attached from the secret passageway behind the purple arras, turn him over to the uniformed Hibernian just offstage, and yourself earn the right to that final kiss, instead of the dilatory but bandolined hero...
...musicians, and has in addition shown much capacity as a program maker?it takes creative imagination to get up an interesting list of compositions for an evening. Take his last "popular" program, perhaps the most difficult kind to put together. His orchestral pieces were: the overture of The Secret of Suzanne, Ballet Suite from Sylvia, the Nutcracker Suite, the Blue Danube Waltz. Certainly this concoction of dance and lightness is " popular" enough, and yet?unlike most popular programs?it will not chase away the music-satiated cognoscenti...