Word: written
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This Woman Business" at the Copley aids and abets Holbrook Blinn's current dramatic heresy. Like "The Play's the Thing", it has a cast of six or seven men and one woman, in open defiance of all the best books of dramatic technique--by ladies who have written pageants for the Cope Valley Community Players--which claim that the female must appear in strength numerical as well as sexual. Walking in beauty from out the wings is supposed to add that intangible repondez s'il vous plait without which no galleries will be filled. We all know now what...
...competition closes July 1, 1928, and all manuscripts must be sent in by that time to be considered in the contest. All editorials must have been written by undergraduates and published during the academic year 1927-28. Monthlies, quarterlies, literary magazines, alumni publications, and comic magazines are excluded from the contest...
...presence highly disagreeable. Wallace Beery becomes an Alpine guide, a profession in which his efforts are ludicrously insufficient. As Now We're in the Air at one point descended to extraordinarily vulgar farce, so Wife Savers allows its plot to depend upon a somewhat ribald interpretation of a note, written by the heroine, in which she informs the hero that he will have to marry her because she is in trouble. Wallace Beery also confesses in a subtitle that he is not to blame for having been born a month too soon. Wife Savers, despite or perhaps on account...
International. John Howard Lawson wrote what a lot of people consider the best play in the modern manner yet written by a U. S. playwright. It was Processional produced some seasons ago with none too conspicuous magnetism by the Theatre Guild. Since then those who were stirred by it hasten to see Mr. Lawson's latest. In this one they were disappointed; Mr. Lawson's modern manner has sent his play flying in every direction at once. It is in 21 scenes, some of them in Thibet. It purports to be a satire on modern life. There are capitalists, lamas...
...Significance. The life of Jesus Christ is read most often in the biographies that four men wrote after his death.* Three of these?the "gospels" of Matthew, Mark, and Luke?obviously derive in part from the same sources, in part from each other. The history written by John is a different story, leaving out much fact that is in the others, adding much theology that they lack. There are other recountals of the life of God's son; they have, all taken together, enough contradictions to make their corroborations doubtful. The purpose of the biographies of Christ that have been...