Word: truths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Present-day liberties make it a little too easy, sometimes, for men to miss advantages simply by failure to see them. The liberties are right; unlike a prescribed course of study or Fresh man athletics, the benefit of religion departs as soon as the element of compulsion enters. That truth was learned here nearly forty years ago, when "morning prayers" were first made voluntary. And furthermore, the chapel loses nothing by the absence of those who fail to make its acquaintance. It exists for those who choose to enjoy such a "luxury", and as long as it serves them freely...
...heads of the schools themselves from their excellent training in business management. It is interesting to note that a College for Confidence Men discovered and dismantled last spring in Denver claimed almost exactly these advantages in its defence. By the same argument it could be shown with much truth that burglary as a profession has much to offer Undoubtedly it develops to a high degree unobtrusive attention to details and a deft accuracy of touch...
Milne's magic delicacy runs elusively through "The Truth about Blayds", which Boston is seeing for the first time at the Copley this week. There is none of the near-burlesque of the "Dover Road", and no such whimsy as in "Mr. Pim", but here is a hint of something growing in the young Englishman's art: he is holding his own fascinating traits, and picking up power and sincerity to add to them. In this play he touches upon a problem, and while he refuses to come to grips with it, he approaches near enough to size...
Nothing may be said of the plot, for it hinges on the "truth", and the truth must not be told. Mr. Wingfield, as the "veteran poet" celebrating his ninetieth birthday with his adulous family and honored guest, does the best acting that has been seen on the Copley stage, or perhaps any Boston stage, this season, His shy pride, his innocent reminiscing, have the assurance of the genuine "literary lion." The role is a difficult one, for it involves a double pose-but there, again, we are dangerously near the "truth." Mr. Clive has become a meticulous Boswell to this...
...Truth, Beauty, that's all they need know...