Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...GUARDSMAN-The smart comedy highlight of the season. Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. The attempt of a great actor to seduce his own wife...
...formally prose, almost the entire spirit of the writing is poetical. The prose spirit scarcely appears except in the reviews, the editorial "Now That Mem is a Memory", and in the extended satire "Logic, or The Evangelical Ventriloquist", notwithstanding the maturity and power of prose narratives by Mr. Smart, Mr. Edmonds, and Mr. Finney. In the editorial on the closing of Memorial Hall, the voice of the Advocate joins the crowd, muttering revolt against the powers that control the university. After administering a sensible old fashioned antidote to the recent sentimentality, the writer points out hat considerable power of directing...
Unlike this sketch, the three prose narratives are not prose in conception, excellent as is the detailed style in each. "The Iron String" by Charles Allen Smart condenses the material of a novel into reminiscence, as introduction to a pretty turn of direction in mood that might have been the perfect idea of a lyric. The treatment of material indicates a failure to see the prose values of material and the sort of prose effect that it is possible to obtain with given material. But if one accepts the misapplication of lyric form, the management in detail is powerful...
Winthrop Weatherbee Jr. '26 of Boston was elected treasurer; Charles Allen Smart '26, of Forest Hills, N. Y., was elected secretary, Samuel Whiting '26 of Hingham was made business manager, and Richard Linn Edsall of Millwood, Va., was elected Pegasus. The following were added to the literary board: J. D. Keogh '25, Hugh Whitney '25, S. F. Ayers '26, and H. N. Doughty '26. Mr. S. Foster Damon '14 was elected an honorary member of the literary board in recognition of his services to the Advocate during...
...GUARDSMAN-Lynn Fontanne, Alfred Lunt and the Theatre Guild in a supremely smart discussion of the domestic disturbances of a great actor and his wife...