Word: written
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your advertisements that TIME is written for "active persons of high intelligence and quick apperceptions . . . not for the masses...
...such a crepe-hanger review your CINEMA? Or if this must be, why not change the heading to VINEGA(R)? The two words have letters only in common, and the result is not at all in keeping with your usual attitude. I have seen many of the "New Pictures" written up in your issue of Dec. 26, and from the reactions of the audiences on those occasions, who, after all, are the ones to be pleased, it would seem that your reviewer is entirely out of line with public opinion. Don't you think it rather hard...
...make her fiction about his youth appear to be a biographical rather than an invented recountal, she imagines herself writing the book long after David Schuyler has become President of the U. S. It can be supposed that he became President in about 1950, that the book is written perhaps 25 years after this. To supply a background of later events that are not included in her story of David Schuyler's boyhood, Author Hurst quotes, in footnotes, from the imagined diaries of David Schuyler's sister. The advantages of this somewhat televisionary technique outweigh its defects; perhaps...
Spiritual suicide is a cruel delicacy for the current theatre. With amazing daring, Mr. Kelly has written of two people in whom daring had died. The thoughtful, courageous quality of his attempt is scarcely obscured by deficiencies in his result. Passages of perilously rich writing intrude; clarity of concept is not constant. Yet the play, provocative, never bores...
...itself magnificently as the best of its kind in town. She did not write the songs and jokes, but the librettist held closely to her basic story. The floating theatre on the Mississippi made a perfect background; Negro singers helped the melodies. These tunes were by Jerome David Kern, written at his best. Unlimited chorus girls and superbly competent principals (there is no star) added full value...