Word: talents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Right You Are (If You Think You Are). Playwright Luigi Pirandello, like the Devil, seduces the idle. After years of temptation, the Theatre Guild succumbed last week to spending some unengaged time and talent on special matinees of a cerebral shadow dance wherein "the Italian Shakespeare" divides a flighty family against itself and lets in village gossips to decide who is crazy. There is no one crazy but someone's else thinking makes him so. The truth? What is truth? etc. etc. Two-thirds of it are lively entertainment, unless you think otherwise. Helen Westley does another...
...professor rounded up talent and discovered a first class bassoon player, formerly with the German and Slavic Philharmonic in Laibach, Austria, sawing wood for new garages in Butte; one of Finland's best clarinets coal-digging in Red Lodge; an able violinist in a Helena high school. Additional products were imported...
...Ford is particularly known for the assistance which he gives to young, unknown authors, who are unable to find publishers. As editor of the English Review, he constantly sought out and championed unknown talent. In the Review, he first published works of D. H. Lawrence and Ezra Pound, who have since become well known in the literary world...
...from TIME s entertainers Jan. 27, 1927. Your station is very clear here in Truro, N. S., Canada. I would like to suggest to you from Truro, that I would like to hear a program of Scotch music and songs some night. You have got some very good Scotch talent around your station. I would like very much to receive a copy of TIME, or any of the souvenirs you are sending out from your station. I am listening in every night from Monday until Thursday. Would like you to announce my name from your station next Thursday night, saying...
...Typesetters are not expected to know anything; but we employ the best talent that money and good prices can command for proofreaders, and there is nothing to be said in extenuation of their shortcomings...