Word: straights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...familiar lobbyists returned to speak their time-worn pieces in the farmers' behalf. The proceedings reminded one of an 1890 melodrama, revived and played straight...
...change from straight musical comedy a piece of this sort is most refreshing. Particularly it is so, after the countless disappointments brought by "Student Prince" imitations and such. Colorful, gay, and above all tunefully refreshing. "The Silver Swan" takes its place well up in the ranks of worth-while musical entertainment...
...independent stage organization. For some reason the executive staff is always unbending in its rules; the period previous to 1924 saw the Club presenting only plays of foreign authors, never before produced in America; the next few years introduced authors of this nation, but slowly turned from straight drama given by students to a semi-professional cast and a repertory either sensational or frankly song-and-dance. The disturbances of last December caused, for this season at least, the abolition of outside aid, but they have also resulted in further depreciation of the value of the Club...
...that is just what it is, Believing, no doubt, the truth of the theory that at the theatre one never laughs so heartily as when one has just stared into the half-revealed face of tragedy, Mr. Oursler, the playwright, has attempted to strike the delicate line between straight comedy and unadulterated drama, and has hit it so exactly that both words are necessary to describe the result...
...victory was the sixth straight for Cambridge, the ninth in ten races since the War. It placed the light blue even with the dark. Next year the two will start another century of boatracing...