Word: typing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Potters. Though the word "boob" is rather an outworn colloquialism, it must be revived to designate the type lampooned by Playwright J. P. McEvoy. He has written a satire live with savage bristles, has hurled it full in the face of the great American boob...
MEET THE WIFE?Flurry of satire and farce directed at the type of woman who entertains visiting British novelists...
There are a few specimens of the type "realism" in the collection which provoke the question, Is not the thesis of realism, a valuable and truthful thesis in itself, already proved to satiety? Ought not the case to be rested? The virus has been injected into the body politic these many years; are not all purposes of innoculation served? Surely the last pair of rosy spectacles has been dashed from the last contented nose; surely there is left no benighted Victorian who has not learned that "beauty" is a quivering suggestion of sex and neurosis? For there seems...
...still find a big demand for musical shows of the 'Mary' type. I took a long chance with 'Mary' type. I took a long chance with 'Mary', and it brought people to the theatre who hadn't been for years. It created a popular demand. 'The O'Brien Girl', 'Nellie Kelly', and 'Rosie O'Reilly' followed up that demand. The big fault with musical shows is that after a long run the actors become puppets. They just go through the motions. I remember how I felt after I had played 102 weeks in 'Little Johnny Jones'. The very sound...
...children's concert, which the Glee Club gave in collaboration with the Symphony Orchestra on Monday, was well received. A new type of song was tried of which the audience heartily approved. Choral music, which college glee clubs have never dared to attempt before, was boldly presented and well received. The child audience was deeply impressed with the churchly music of Lotti and Vittoria, laughed at the folktunes and light songs, and eagerly applauded the finale from "The Gondoliers...