Word: suspects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...toward its close. "The Tavern", at the Tremont, is probably the last of the reputed first-rate productions that we can look for here before next fall, and it is not the sort of play to suffer much from hot weather. The fickle Mr. Cohan, who sometimes make us suspect that he is as good a publicity agent as he is actor, author and producer, has broken his vow of theatrical chastity again and honored Boston with his presence behind the footlights. His part in "The Tavern" is thoroughly charming; the play itself is as hearty and artistic a burlesque...
...Shubert: a revival of the famous "Chocolate Soldier" completely revamped, reset, and brought up to date with the usual Shubert thoroughness. The constant outcroppings of well-worn musical comedy tricks leads one to suspect considerable alteration from the original. There is mention of flappers as well as of other things quite unknown "when Hector was a lad", and the stage business is straight from Broadway. Indeed, it offered a strange contrast of methods to find the modified recitative of the original score standing side by side with stage capers of the Fred Stone school. Consequently, only the sureness and restraint...
...such a naive view of Harvard and its professoriat, having little to do with the review of history books, falls within the range of editorial comment. We cannot help wondering if the "New Republic" is expressing the opinion of unbiased thinkers in the country today. One would not suspect to find so conventional an attitude in so Promethean a periodical. The reviewer has apparently excavated the pre-historic, absent-minded professor from the joke column and cartoon page and shipped him intact to Harvard...
...introduction were not bombast--their sincerity is more than proved by what the United States offers. His speech epitomizes what everyone would like to feel about America, but what we have been recently led to doubt. "We harbor no fears; we have no sordid ends to serve; we suspect no enemy; we contemplate or apprehend no conquest. We only wish to do with you that fine, nobler thing which no nation can do alone". The altruism of America is unquestionable...
Indeed the Djinn of the Lamp is, we suspect, none other than Hard Work. Not content with merely duplicating the efforts of past years, the board has added new features which we are told will greatly increase the usefulness of the volume. Although, to quote the old proverb, "There is many a slip twixt the out and the lip", we are confident that the "Register" has positively taken a new lease on life...