Word: themes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...acknowledged as the greatest violoncellist alive. Kreisler went so far as to call him the "greatest musician that has ever drawn a bow." His numbers tonight will include, in addition to two obligatos for the Glee Club, Tartini's "Concerto in D," and Beethoven's "Seven Variations on a Theme by Mozart." The most notable of the Glee Club's numbers will be "Now Let Every Tongue Adore Thee," from Bach's "Sleepers Wake...
Utterly banal in theme and rather juvenile in treatment, the play succeeds moderately as amusement, largely due to the persuasive personality of the star...
Tarnish and Sun Up are deeply imbued with tragedy?both widely divergent in theme. Tarnish is urbane, highly sexed; Sun Up is hidden in the recesses of the Carolina mountains, where such elemental emotions as hatred, cowardice, mother love control existence. Sun Up suffers slightly from a declining last...
...Harvard prize play, seems not uninfluenced by the Cambridge atmosphere?exceedingly polite, witty, moderately well-dressed. Below this brilliantly prepared surface is a foundation theme of considerable consequence. Strongly in its favor is the symmetry of its construction?a virtue lacking in The Potters, a staccato satire on middle class husbands...
Recognizing the scantiness of material, Mr. Washburn sought to clothe his skeleton facts both in the flesh of anecdote and in the drapery of buncombe. He has not forgotten the tricks of his political trade, the "lofty" theme, the "lively" wit. A few examples...