Word: written
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stage, famed Czechoslovakian Playwright Antoine Trych rose from his orchestra seat, drew an automatic pistol, and fired two shots over the heads of the actors. Amid the ensuing deadly hush, he cried: "I protest at the showing of this play in Prague! . . . Many Czechoslovaks, myself included, could have written a better!" Although some who sat near to Playwright Trych applauded his patriotic words, most of the audience took him to be a madman, rushed hugger-mugger from the playhouse...
...Significance. Author Bennett has written what he calls a fantasia; mainly for his own amusement, one suspects, though the element of finance may have some place in the picture What he has achieved is a novel which belongs distinctly in the featherweight class, employing a preposterous plot and progressing to an unimportant little climax. Occasional flashes of humor are obscured by the ponderous attempt to make the whole affair very funny indeed. Only the author's acknowledged facility with the pen saves Vanguard from being spoken to quite sharply. The Author. Enoch Arnold Bennett, 60, was born near Hanley...
...Forecast should, when he has made a statement, be willing to stand by it, and not wish to crawl out of it like a dastard. If Dr. Straton desires publicity, his is a good method of obtaining it. If, however, he wishes to see articles reporting his speeches written in a tone complimentary to him, let him think out what he's going to say before he says it, and not talk for a half hour extempore at the conclusion of his main address...
...himself until the intermission, when he decided it was time to send in his card to the bright star of the protestless of "stage door Johnnies" was the medium and promised to have an answer after the show. He did have one Fair "Helen of Troy, New York" had written daintily...
Several selections from the "Well Tempered Clavichord", often reproduced some what clumsily on the pianoforte, will be rendered on the harpsichord, an instrument very similar to the one for which these selections were originally written. Much of Bach's music was composed for the old-fashioned harpsichord. Mr. Whiting considers the combination of flute and harpsichord as the best medium of interpreting Bach's pieces, as it makes the best reproduction of the instrument on which Bach originally wrote...