Word: witness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cleveland the "Crusaders"-against Prohibition-met, 50 strong, in Parlor B of the Hollenden Hotel. The Crusaders are an organization of wealthy young men dedicated to the "cause of sanity." Commander-in-chief is Fred G. Clark, President of Fred G. Clark ("Hyvis") Oil Co., music writer, wit, comedy player in the Hermit Club's annual frolic. Cried Crusader Clark: "We're not wet, but we are opposed to things as they are today." The Crusaders pledged $50,000 to recruit 100,000 young Clevelanders to work for Temperance as contrasted to Prohibition, planned to organize similar "battalions...
More beauty of face and form was visible one night last week in Grauman's Chinese Theatre, Hollywood, Calif, than in any other building in the world. Wit too was there but less abundantly. Rogue Song was having its world premiere...
...third act is highly hilarious, in spite of the aged device of the poor girl misplaying the Duchess. There is enough of the Shavian keenness and wit to make it one of the high spots of the play. It is in the part of the renovated Eliza displaying her new culture at tea that Miss Inescort retrieves her ostentatious display of vocal strength of the previous acts. Her highly phonetic and correct, "Not bloody likely" brings the act to a chaotic close...
...remaining two acts continue with a fair share of morality and wit, punctuated with several undeniable hints that Mr. Shaw could be quite sentimental if he could take his tongue out of his cheek long enough. But that would not be playing the part he has set aside for himself in all of his plays. So, in this play he ends with his usual quirk. There is a discourse on the evils of middle class morality, the verbose Doolittle is led to the noose of matrimony, Higgins returns to his phonetics, and Eliza remains a "good" girl...
With all due respect for the CRIMSON's editorial wit, therefore. I should occasionally like to see it directed into new fields. Resignedly. Coburn T. Wheeler...