Word: torches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Torch Bearers" will continue its run at the Copley for another week. Copley audiences have given it the stamp of their approval, and from all appearances will continue to do so throughout its second six days...
...performance, and aftermath of a one-act-play, as it is presented by a group of "society" women who will never realize that they will never act. Mr. Kelly provides several new jokes and the Copley players bring in all the old ones. the audience guffaws genteelly. . . and "The Torch Bearers" enters its second week...
...production proceeds, one is convinced that all such amateur actors are fools, that their husbands or fathers invariably drop dead in the cause of art", and that, whenever the "torch of concomitant culture" has been raised, it is doomed to sputter out, leaving contented homes in blissful darkness...
...wagged his head. They noted that he had a good back. They noted that every now and then, when he wanted to indicate a sudden pianissimo, he shot his left hand into the air, palm flat, in the way of one who hoists a heavy tray or thrusts a torch aloft. For the rest, his gestures were continent. He led Debussy's Nuages; Honegger's Pacific 231, Scriabin's Poem of Ecstacy. Like a storm of white hail came the clapping. With inexorable courtesy, Koussevitzky bowed and bowed...
...active director and editor of both of these publications. During the last year he devoted some time to theatrical productions in New York, and was responsible for the production of the Spanish musical comedy, "The Wild Cat," and in London he produced the "The Risk," "the Torch," and "Listening...