Word: wilder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Doll's House (by Henrik Ibsen, new acting version by Thornton Wilder; produced by Jed Harris). Of late years Ibsen's famed Doll's House has been gathering dust in the theatre's attic. But shrewd Producer Jed Harris thought that all the old play needed was a thorough dusting. As house cleaner he got Author Thornton Wilder, whose used his broom with a will, beat all the grimy old-fashionedness out of the dialogue, threw 15 unnecessary minutes right out the window. Producer Harris opened his refurbished Doll's House at last summer...
Handel's Oboe Concerto in B Flat major Soloist: Wilder Schmalz...
Most readers today are casual readers, and a casual perusal of Mr. Hillyer's poems will only make one feel that in many passages he has tried to imitate the criticisms of wilder moderns and in a manner faintly reminiscent of Pope...
...Premier Hepburn, but the Globe and Mail continues to support "Mitch" as vociferously as ever. It claims to have heard that desperate C. I. O. thugs from the U. S. are ready to kidnap the Premier's adopted children. Such charges are typical "Dominion journalism" (in Australia even wilder words are flung), and on the side George McCullagh has done something regarded as bravura even by the Canadian press by deciding to devote huge editorial space in the Globe and Mail to his past adventures with strong drink and present successes in vanquishing Demon...
Like the characters in Thornton Wilder's The Bridge of San Luis Rey, who were united through the device of having them tumble to their death together when an Andean bridge collapsed, the characters in The Seven Who Fled are strung together only through the accident of their common expulsion, the similarity of their final nihilistic verdict on human affairs...