Word: self
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said the liberal New York World: "The majority which voted for Thompson are not intelligent, free, self-governing citizens of a republic. "They are suckers. They are not the only suckers in the land, but at the moment they are the most conspicuous ones...
...children and her grandchildren know her as a wise, not very stern old lady; but until a few years ago she was at her business desk every day, brusque, indomitable, and even now she advises with her department heads two or three times a week. Mme. Suzuki is not "self made...
...audience who had seen the John-and-Lionel-Barrymore production of 1919. But never were comparisons more idle. The occasion was the opening of the new home of the Cleveland Play House, an outstanding "little" theatre now made unique in the U. S. through its possession of a self-contained theatre plant with two stages-regular and studio size. The aims and achievements of the "little" or independent theatre movement, of which the Play House is a product and an exponent, bear about the same relation to commercial drama as English cricket bears to big-league baseball...
...called "little" theatres operate on several principles-to encourage playwrights, to develop actors, to please an audience, to absorb the self-expressive energies of a community. The Provincetown Players were founded by the late George Cram Cook on premises including all these principles. Some results: the bringing-to-light of Playwright Eugene O'Neill, Actor Charles Gilpin, Stage-Designer Robert Edmund Jones...
Examples of pure community self-expression, without fruits of creation, are the Dallas Little Theatre, strictly amateur, celebrated for its capture of the Belasco Cup for one-act productions the past three years; and the Pasadena Community Playhouse, where what counts is the number of citizens performing. The Boston Repertory, strictly professional, is an opposite type-a non-profit-making institution with a permanent staff and inveterate audience...