Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Striving for calm, deliberate portraiture, the skill of Mr. Robinson has drown in "Roman Bartholow" a narrative prose-poem, versified in sober lines of meditative characterization. Sophistication echoes through its pages, weary effete, and unenlivening: and yet the characters and plot are such as fit most aptly to his purposes: a modern novel spared. Philosophies and passions are expounded in dialogue that wisely never tries to sound like human talk. He has discovered a way of simplifying subleties that makes them stark and stubbornly incisive; and even his intensest episodes embody wan denial of emotion...
Miss Willard played the heroine and played her capably, with great variety, sympathy, and skill. All the changing moods that the part demands were well differentiated and clearly brought, out. As Alfred, the friend, E. E. Clive appeared at his best. His work is always an outstanding feature of the Copley Players, and this week he was doing some of his best work, handling comedy with a certain and delightful ease and acumen, and turning from his comic scenes to those of pathos with skills. His final confession of the sacrifice he had made and of his own love...
...most significant feature of last week's deliberation was the diplomatic duel over Syria. Ismet Pasha, a small shrewd-looking man, with a smile and courtly manners, and a reputation for diplomatic skill, lives right up to all his name means. His frank statement that the Turkish troops now on the Syrian border were sent there to " drive a hard bargain with the French" can only mean one of two things-bluff or business. The situation is extremely delicate and might lead to war between France and Turkey on the smallest inadvertent provocation by local troops. Neither Turkey...
...according to publishers, there is both a crying need for and a wide opportunity open to a writer for boys who possesses a little more than the usual bag of tricks. The audience is immense and vastly eager-it does not require the skill of a Conrad to move its members. Only deliberate affectation or tediousness they will not tolerate-and in those respects they are extremely hard to fool...
...Giovanni. He is Michael Bohnen, who made his American debut in the middle of the season. Bohnen is that exceptional phenomenon among singers, a man of high intelligence and culture. He is distinctly a man of parts. His voice is fine, big, fresh and young. He sings with skill and excellent understanding and is really a masterful actor, and, indeed, has a reputation in Germany as a nonsinging and even nonspeaking actor. He has had much experience and success as a player for the motion pictures. He is, too, an athlete, a tremendously strong fellow, one of the best amateur...