Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Portrait of Lady Diana Crosbie, daughter of Lord George Sackville, one of Sir Joshua's greatest full-length portraits, comparable with the famous Mrs. Siddons as the Tragic Muse (owned by Henry Huntington) and Nelly O'Brien (in the Wallace Collection, London). The painting was first exhibited at the Royal Academy of 1779, and depicts Lady Crosbie, then but 21 years old, charmingly posed on a lawn, elaborately gowned and coifed, with a landscape background...
...awarded the Pulitzer Prize. His place among American dramatists is therefore assured, along with Eugene O'Neill's. I like the plays of Owen Davis. They are keen, humorful, filled with satirical touches and dramatic events. They have a saving touch of laughter when they are most tragic. I sat with him the other day watching a rehearsal of Home Fires, his newest play. Here are plain Americans, behaving as plain Americans do. In this play he has attempted an exceedingly difficult task: that of writing tragedy in terms of comedy. His new theme is one that either...
...exciting race may have a tragic ending. Of the three balloons not located at the time this column went to press, the Navy A 6698, in charge of Lieutenants Louis J. Roth and T. B. Null sank in Lake Erie. A water-soaked log picked up in the waters of the lake bears a last scarcely legible entry, "All over...
MERTON OF THE MOVIES?Hollywood and its lovely morons spitted upon a rapier of keen satire, in this history of Merton, the grocery-clerk, who dreamed of being an eight-reel-tragic-feature-film and woke to find himself the most popular low comedian in America...
...author of The Adding Machine. I understand that he is to frame the statement on book censorship from the radical standpoint for the Author's League, while George Barr Baker will draft one on the conservative side. In my humble opinion, political censorship of books is inevitable, though tragic. It is inevitable because of the attitude of certain authors and publishers who definitely trade on the sensational and salacious character of some of their books. For the sins of these few, the rest, apparently, must suffer. For the sake of publicity, largely, these authors demand this and that. Their...