Word: written
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reading, conference, discussion, papers to be handed in. They read Plato, Aristotle and Euripides, as.well as occasional chunks of Shakespeare, Shaw, O'Neill. They sketched Greek temples. Art, law, war economics, religion-no phase of Athenian existence was omitted. The climax of the year was a critical review, written by each student, of a modern book called the Greek View of Life by G. Lowes Dickinson. A few outsiders, such as Irishman George Russell (AE), lectured...
This mild magazine cover farce, improbable and not hilarious, was written by Fred Ballard, who did so much better with Believe Me, Zantippe, and by Charles A. Bickford, who acted a hardboiled newspaper egg in Chicago...
...murder. A stoolpigeon takes the stand to testify against him. In a hotel room opposite the courtroom, a man is toying with a golf club; good-naturedly, he steps to the window, picks up a rifle, shoots the stoolpigeon. That is the beginning of a lusty underworld melodrama written by Oliver H. P. Garrett, onetime reporter for the New York World, produced by Paramount, acted by George Bancroft, Evelyn Brent, William Powell...
...Metropolitan-goers, disgusted with Oscar Wilde, were disgusted with his story on which the opera is based. It has never been given by the Metropolitan since that first unlucky premiere. U. S. opera-patrons liked better Der Rosenkavalier which, although it was not, sometimes seems to have been written for Rosa Raisa of the Chicago Civic Opera Company...
...healthy thing for any institution, however, to have such a frankly self-critical play written and produced on its own campus, no matter how obvious that criticism...