Word: themes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these attempts dishearten. Set the mark higher, and ring the bell. For really, if a man, after three years study, cannot compose a clever theme of five words or less, the critics of higher education are to some extent justified...
...Your Man, like most of Clara Bow's productions, is constructed almost entirely upon the theme of her celebrated sex-appeal. In this one she meets a standardized, youthful, French aristocrat on the point of marrying a girl he does not love because he has been engaged to her practically since birth. Clara Bow, in the part of his true inamorata, finds ingenious and not unentertaining devices which permit this tragic possibility to be avoided. Through these devices the "It" motif, which sounded loudly through It and Hula, runs like the sound of ten trombones and a fiddle...
...campfires on the Brattle Hall stage have died out. The production itself, however,-- "The Chisholm Trail"-- will be remembered as marking the Club's return to, if not a more artistic policy, at least to one which yields larger financial returns. For some reason--possibly because it had a theme worth writing about, possibly because it was a radical departure from recent plays of the Club--"The Chisholm Trail" "caught...
...president of Panama, last week announced he would cause a statue of Theodore Roosevelt by Sculptress Gertrude Vanderbilt (Mrs. Harry Payne) Whitney, to be erected at Culebra Cut, on the Panama Canal. It was easy to foresee that U. S. poets might seize this news as a theme with a classic precedent. The classic precedent, however, contains an error. The traveler who first stood "silent upon a peak in Darien" was not "stout Cortez" (Hernando Cortez) as sung by Poet John Keats. It was Vasco Nunez De Balboa. Poets celebrating the proposed Roosevelt statue should bear in mind that Darien...
...incapable of stealing the picture from a police dog called Rex in the picture (real name Napoleon). Although at an important crisis he mistakes Mr. Barrymore for a wax dummy, this animal adds enormously to what would otherwise remain a not very startling reiteration of the Jekyll-Hyde theme complicated by stupid detectives...