Word: successful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gallienne scored a success in this Ibsen play last year. A builder of churches, turned bitter against God, concentrates thereafter upon homes for human beings. Fired by the love of a young woman who has sought him out in his childless house, h.9 builds one of these homes with high towers reaching up to the clouds. The master, builder even climbs to the top of his own creation, unfurls the flag at its summit, vindicates his courage before detractors below, before God above, before the woman he loves. His audacity spells his downfall. Miss Le Gallienne is also audacious...
After so great a success as "The Private Life of Helen of Troy" it took courage to rescue another legend from the past and give it new life in modern terms. Galahad turns a hazard into a triumph...
...last named difficulty hinges on the question of university economics. It there were money enough in becoming a tutor to promise a man a decent existence, many more would be content to consider this a life work. The second handicap to success could be overcome, to some extent, by the development of the remedy suggested for the third, provided, of course, the cost system of departmentalized education be viewed with the necessary grain of salt. The first can only be eradicated by closer contact between English and American tutors. Unless these men here learn the subtle refinements of what must...
Those who have strolled along what is often called the Gold Coast, in deference to an orchestra of that name and the fact that Arthur's Inc. is a great success, may have noticed that the Ibis tree, so recently brought to America from the Netherplaces by Robert Lampoon, Esquire has, within the last few days, been sawed in twain by some George Washington who needs to be debunked. Nor is the CRIMSON happy to see this happen...
...expense has been spared in the outfitting of the show, and that just about guarantees that somehow of other the producers will see to it that it is a success, if they have to subsidize the metropolitan press for a twelvemonth. The curtain rises on a romantic, and dimly lighted scene, the camp of the Riffian chieftain, the baffling Red Shadow. The Song of the Volga Boatmen contributes its mite as the tribesmen open the play with the Riding song of the Riffs, a rare gem in basso profundo, with excellent time and almost no tune, which will defy college...