Word: uplifter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...certainly have come to a strange pass in history when the wonderful possibilities for uplift of the human race can legally be so prostituted...
...custom as well as the privilege of a drama uplift organization like the Repertory is to bite off larger pieces than it can chew. "John The Baptist," adapted by Frances Jewett from the "Johanues" of Hermann Sudermann, turned out to be quite a mouthful and was mangled with more or less success. The theme is worthy of the effort and one can admire the courage if not the discretion of the Repertory players in attempting it. The result to be truthful, was hard to digest...
...Holly-wood and "educated." Her schoolroom is a suite at the Ritz, her text the Eisman checkbook. The play opens on shipboard, with Lorelei out-golddigging a pair of antique Britishers, what time she snares Henry Spoffard, a Presbyterian playboy from Philadelphia with millions to be diverted from moral uplift to Mr. Cartier's jewelry store. She winds up in Manhattan having a three-day debut party with boys from the Racquet Club, simultaneously arranging her cinema career and marriage with Saphead Spoffard...
Among the equestriennes could have been seen blonde Mrs. Pethick-Lawrence, grand marshal of the crusade, onetime belle of the Weston-Super-Mare élite, later reclaimed for evangelical uplift among the fallen women of West London, later captured by gaolers for over-strenuous female Suffrage onslaughts, presently flying about speechmaking to the effect that...
...done anything to the playwright. On the contrary they have been very nice about buying tickets and even sitting through entire productions. We wish Miss Nichols and her pals would lay off Apple Sauces, Abies Irish Roses, and White Collarses and give us more dress suit dramas. We favor uplift. Yah! "Y'rs. "GEORGE. "HENRY. "HERM...