Word: witness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brattle Hall at 8.15 this evening, it is interesting to note its rather curious history. The original of the play is an Italian comedy, "Fabia dell' Amore delle Le Melarancie," written about the middle of the eighteenth century by Count Carlo Gozzi, a poor Venetian nobleman who through his wit and the publication of a number of satirical pieces, had won a place for himself in the graneleschi society...
...qualities are characteristic of Moliere as a playwright, his humor and his common sense. In fact he was essentially a bourgeois humorist writing comedies more or less classical in form but full of a sane and vivacious wit not found in appreciable amounts in his two great contemporaries...
Last week's news of a $4,000,000 combined hospital and hotel building being projected in Manhattan gave wit-stirring material to newspaper columnists. The vision of a high jinx victim being trundled from his bedroom to the convenient emergency ward was irresistible...
...plays worked under the rule. "My business is to ask questions, not to answer them." It is to be noted that, although he stayed by this idea, Ibsen answered a very pressing question of New York producers last year, and bids fair to do the same this season; to wit: "What shall we play to stave off what promises to be a remarkably dull season...
There has been such an excess of everything including silence, during the past week that Joe Forecast, as an object lesson to the world at large, contents himself with a few plain words, to wit...