Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very interesting tale artfullyand pieasantly told, is Miss Hurt's "Star Dust." Yet it is more than that, for like "Main Street" it present a vivid protest against the commonplaceness, the narrow mindedness, that holds the majority of us down to a life of anotony and mundane, materialist achievement. It is a clear cut cross section view of the experiences and struggles of one who, failing to attain for herself expression of herself, gives all that a woman can give that her daughter may grow up to know the freedom and deliciousness of being herself...
...should have none of the cramping "Chinese shoes" into which she was thrust slue and body the day she was born. In telling of Lilly's fight to gain for her daughter what she could never have, Miss Hurst has an excellent opportunity for interesting narrative, strong characterization, and vivid portrayal of conditions as they are which she does not fail to grasp...
Those who have read his first book, "White Shadows In The South Seas" will know what to expect as to treatment and style in "The Mystic Isles". There is the same breezy journalistic style, readable and vivid above all, although some time uneven and crud; the same mixture of description and narrative and exposition all, brightened by Mr. O'Brien's even present exuberance and enthusiasm. It is this quality above all, we thinly which has made the author so suddenly and deservedly famous. He is always such a delightful companion, so alive, so eager and able to enjoy life...
...Junior Class at Yale is adopted, the motion picture industry will have a new field to invade. The scheme is to record life at Yale by means of the cinema. In this way, alumni coming back for class reunions could review the events of their own time. Such a vivid reproduction of college life is highly practical and would be a source of much pleasure to those graduates who will have been out of college for some years...
...difficult for a modern generation to find interest in the ultra-melodramatic novels of forty years ago, except as a source of ridicule or amusement at the customs and institutions of those quaint days. Nor is anything gained in the dramatization of such productions, save, possibly, a vivid reminder of how far we have progressed in manners and morals since the old-fashioned period of superlatively good heroines, impossibly honor able heroics, and most villainous of villains. Adapted to the exigencies of the stage, the Arlington Players last Monday height put on version of Mrs. Augusta Evans' famous novel...