Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dear Sir...
...included; his letters have been gone over for anything that might be torn out of the context; bits (and good bits they are) are stuck in from the diary he kept during a tour on the continent. His genius for parody is at par in a novelette that takes Sir Walter Scott for a dizzy ride. The whole thing is a hodge-podge of good, bad and indifferent, consistently interesting only to a person who takes everything so seriously that he must study the development of the another of "Alice...
Quite different in spirit is a group of four choruses from Gilbert and Sullivan's "Patience". Music, it has been said, is the most emotional of the arts, but the emotion of laughter has perhaps never been so well expressed as when Sir Arthur Sullivan succeeded in incorporating in his melodies the humor of Gilbert's words...
Trelawny of the Wells. Producer George C. Tyler said, "Where would the world be if it weren't for sentiment?"; and answered his own question by reviving Sir Arthur Wing Pinero's play with the the stage-folk of yesterday: John Drew, Mrs. Whiffen, Otto Kruger, Effie Shannon, Henrietta Crosman, Wilton Lackaye, O. P. Heggie. He tossed in a few of the younger luminaries, too: Pauline Lord...
...mellow humor and pathos-qualities whose commercial values are doubtful. To the student of the theatre, to the lover of stage personalities, it is irresistable. Dramatist Pinero in Trelawny has created a young playwright-one whose theories and struggles against the theatrical traditions of the time were those of Sir Arthur himself. Young Tom Wrench abhors the long, pompous speeches; his characters speak like human beings. Scornfully, the old actors reject his manuscript: "Why, sir, there isn't a speech in it . . . nothing a man can really get his teeth into." Tom finally gets a backer for his play...