Word: themes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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AUTHOR. Mr. Cohan has selected a theme which he knows most minutely. He has written of the life, the longing, the success, the disappointment of the Theatre. He has selected a character which he himself played in real life-the song and dance man of the vaudeville circuits. He has posited as his thematic philosophy the principle that people of the Theatre can never shift allegiance to love or to the world of business. After years of waiting, his song and dance man hears the knock of opportunity on the door that leads to Broadway success. Failing miserably...
...some of the manufactured newspapers I have been able to see as many as ten distinct series of drawings in which the theme is invariably the disparagement of man by his daughters and wives, conveying to the mind of the readers that the head of the family and the backbone of the nation, is a subject fit only to be ridiculed. Daughters mocking their fathers and wives chastising their better halves hardly uphold the idea of family authority, without which family life surely perishes. Nothing sinks deeper into the simple mind than the repetition of these scenes dished...
...Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra the other evening gave a program of all Shakespeare, that is to say of orchestral pieces written to illustrate some Shakesperian theme. This interesting selection of music, ably conducted by Fritz Reiner, consisted of Korngold's Much Ado About Nothing, Wechsler's overture As You Like It, Berlioz' Queen Mab, Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream. This piquantly balanced the well known against the little known...
...pitiful tangle was to let himself be captured with the forged despatches and so leave Arlette forever-and how Peyrol calmly outwitted the lot of them, saved Real for Arlette, removed Scevola from the scene and delivered the forged despatches at the price of his own life- is the theme of the story. He could not save the French fleet, for the gods were against him, but he saved the Escampobars and fooled the English. Arlette was happy with her man-and as, for the old rover, the Brother of the .Coast, the man of dark deeds but of large...
...theme of the constitutional liar, temporarily staving off detection by fresh falsehoods, but in the end hopelessly enmeshed in the network of his deceptions, was handled in masterly fashion more than a century before Goldoni by Corneille in "Le Menteur". In contrast to the French author's dignified verse-comedy, Goldoni's "Il Bugiardo" ("The Liar") is often broadly farcical...