Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which various producers have contemplated since Sunny eliminated competition in the more spacious field, has at last unearthed a good one. The Girl Friend is not guaranteed unconditionally, but it offers a consistently agreeable display. It has good music and unquestionably the best lyrics in town. It has a sound enough set of jokes and more than the usual allotment of brisk dancing. Eva Puck and Sam White, vaudeville favorites, are the featured entertainers. They too, if not supreme, are soundly satisfactory. They tell the story of a chicken-rancher on Long Island who became a champion six-day bicycle...
...them all awry and drove the prettiest daughter of the village to delirium and death. The instrument of the Word's distortion is a ranting fanatic of a priest, who boils accurately through the play in the interpretation of John Cromwell. The play is brutal and unpleasant, but a sound and at times swiftly exciting piece of dramaturgy. How much of it is truth and how much of it is theatre, only a witness who knows the hidden southern countries can determine...
...there absence of culture in the place. Three native sons have doctors' degrees from universities, but nevertheless there is a sound culture in Charlotte. One of the faculty here at Harvard maintains that Ferrisburg has even more. I disagree. If culture is that refined sense of right living which comes with the mellowness and dignity of age, then Charlotte has culture. Verb roots do not thrive on her rock ribbed earth, but something even finer does. For the faces of the people are strong and chiseled. They workship a strong god who made their rocks and yet let them live...
...first test of any job is, of course, the standing and reputation of the concern. If a firm has been doing business over a period of years; if it is sound; if it enjoys a good reputation, preferably if it is nationally known, or at least is familiar to the people who are its legitimate prospects; if it has for some years been putting out satisfactory products, it meets this first test...
HEDDA GABLER-Emily Stevens and a sound company continuing the Ibsen play "for special matinees...