Word: truths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...death. The instrument of the Word's distortion is a ranting fanatic of a priest, who boils accurately through the play in the interpretation of John Cromwell. The play is brutal and unpleasant, but a sound and at times swiftly exciting piece of dramaturgy. How much of it is truth and how much of it is theatre, only a witness who knows the hidden southern countries can determine...
...brief the truth is this: seniors, allowed freedom by the tutorial system, are refusing to attend uninteresting lectures or those which do not add to their knowledge of their field or their better appreciation of life and learning in general. So many a gentleman long sure of an audience now remarks empty seats and wonders if this child, the tutorial system, is to fatten upon his heritage...
...booted villain and comes to no good end in Paris. Miss Blair is more often associated with the plays of Eugene O'Neill, having created more of his heroines than any other actress. She shows in East Lynne a comic talent which peeped but timidly from behind the truth-stained characters of this greatest dramatist...
...truth the situation that produced the strike bears close resemblance to the industrial evils that succeeded the advent of the factory system in the nineteenth century. By failing to pay a living wage to the heads of families the Passaic mills had drawn women and minors to them. A law designed to remedy this had been suspended. And it was the refusal of the manufacturers to allow their employes to organize that precipitated the walkout...
...when a string of pearls and a couple of gunshots made a play, and people liked it. Perhaps the cinema has crowded out the species. Square Crooks is one of them and, of its type, rigorously exciting. The acting is exceedingly sketchy and the lines lacking in literature or truth, but a good many people who have been writhing before great casts and majestically unfathomable plays this season were pleased...