Word: witness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weeks to The Silver Cord. He wrote them both, is one of the few who have had two plays produced by the Theatre Guild in the same season. His new opus is a pungent satire savagely directed against the popular sentimentality that breathes violet perfume on "mother love." A wit in the audience loudly announced after the curtain line "Now to go home and shoot mother...
...Story* is much the same Camelotian idyll as that told by Scribe Malory and Poet Tennyson, except that relations and motives are made infinitely clearer and the characters might be leisure-class folk of our own time and place, invested with more than the usual emotional intensity, ready wit, nice manners and good intentions...
...Author is that college professor who last year, with The Private Life of Helen of Troy, amazed people by demonstrating that a scholar, musician, poet and dramatist can also be a novelist-of-manners in the richest veins of language, wit, philosophy. Galahad, as superbly and warmly humanistic as its predecessor, proves that the latter was no mere tour de force nor a long-polished secret gem, but an inspired creation the like of which may be expected yet again. The subtitle of Galahad is a very fair sample of Erskine wit: "Enough of his life to explain his reputation...
...Churchill, efficient dilettante, comes to drag her cousins off to school in England. Anticipating an interesting seduction, Dodd soon finds himself a successful, well-kept celebrity in England, married to Florence. Not till then does he wake up to Tessa Sanger. Beneath her timely scorn, fearless innocence and sharp wit, her primitive, leaky little heart has been constantly his. All her intensity goes into her acquired conception of honor when he proposes that they run away. She refuses. But Florence cracks under the strain, scouring the slate with curses. Tessa goes with Dodd to a flyblown Brussels hostelry, where...
...that fatherly, dignified compendium, something that began perhaps, when the Times cracked its joke, amazing because so unexpected, about Fannie Brice's nose three years ago† something that was again evident when, last summer, the Times departed from its rule against "features" and began printing the labored wit of Funnyman Will Rogers (TIME, Aug. 16). The Times, patrician of the press, was stooping to the popular...