Word: superbness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Theatre Guild has staged this weird adventure with all the cunning resources at its command. Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, Blanche Yurka, George Gaul, Helen Westley, Dwight Frye, Albert Bruning and other notables head an apparently endless cast. Acting, setting and direction are superb. Goat Song can be set down as an inspired attempt to cage within the worldly walls of the theatre an intangible and hopelessly unanswerable abstraction...
George Frederick Handel died in 1759. But death in Germany is quite impermanent. With enviable case and a superb gusto, the late Kaiser used to call to his side legions beyond the grave. He seemed to believe that with his sabre he could rattle the bones of God. Now the grand insolence, and the metaphysical jugglery, whether innate in Teutons or blown over the border from Doorn, reappears in Aix-La-Chappelle, famed by Browning...
...point out the superiority of those borrowed from the U. S. to those owned in England. But alas, although 615 paintings were hung, not a single one came from the U. S. "Why not?" tourists asked indignantly. "Why do you go out of your way to ignore the superb U. S. collections...
Says Shaw with superb candor: "My reason for taking out a private mono-mark is that I am what is called a celebrity. It is sometimes excessively inconvenient to be a celebrity, because of the advertising value of a celebrated name...
...daughter of a cheap London boarding house. Her Cockney accent left us in doubt as to her true nationality, and her usual grace and charm could not effectively be forced into the awkward mold required of the true Miss Woofers. As Lady Leicester, Miss Standing would have been superb, but as Miss Woofers she was decidedly miscast...