Word: witness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stage. His present occasion, to lay the dust he raised when he wrote about the War, is made happy by many witty words. Having "no ethical respect for modern Capitalist civilization," Socialist Shaw "contemplated the British, German and French sections . . . with impartial disapproval. I felt as if I were witnessing an engagement between two pirate fleets, with however, the very important qualification that as I and my family and friends were on board British ships I did not intend the British section to be defeated if I could help it." Unaided by Socialist and Labor colleagues, who were interested only...
Naturally the Barrymores dominate the picture, but they are ably assisted by Tully Marshall and Karen Morley, for whom, nevertheless, it is hard to share the Duke's enthusiasm. But leave the brothers alone together, face to face, let them return snarl for snarl, wit for wit, chuckle for chuckle, and any one may see that the two Barrymores are worthy of each other...
...together with her twin sister's less devious route to the same goals. The plot is rather more involved than is usual on the contemporary stage. It abounds in "character" parts which require considerable adroitness from the actors, and more experience, perhaps, than undergraduates can supply. There was little wit but much humor in the dialogue, none of it conspicuously original in tone. Reminiscences of A. A. Milne were frequently both in the structure and the lines...
...critics spurned the doctor-playwright-legislator's invitation, heaped upon him their most venomous wit and satire. Thereupon Congressman Sirovich began to talk about subpenaing them...
...APES OF GOD-Wyndham Lewis- McBride ($3). Though rumored to be aimed at the Sitwells (Edith. Osbert, Sacheverellj, Wyndham Lewis' Gargantuan satire carries poisoned arrows enough to riddle all the bohemians and neo-bohemians on earth. With a scalpel of wit in one hand, a cleaver of words in the other, the author lays open their pimplish coteries, shows them apish creatures loosely sexed. Wherever Art is, there are these Apes gathered. The fact that Satirist Lewis' account of their doings slipped the censor can only be explained by his book's disarming brilliance and enormous length...