Word: written
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Parade, a cinema play of the War written by Laurence Stallings, co-author of What Price Glory, was taken from a four weeks' run on Broadway for a special one-night stand in the East Room of the White House. A 23-piece orchestra accompanied the film to Washington. Secretaries and Congressmen looked on as presidential guests...
PROGRESS AND THE CONSTITUTION?Newton D. Baker?Scribner's ($1.25). Newton Diehl Baker has written a book in which he analyzes progress under the Constitution. The book includes three lectures before the University of Virginia Law School?Progress in Institutions, Progress in Industry, Progress in Foreign Relations. The life of civilized man in our day differs more from George Washington's than Washington's from that of Julius Caesar; Jefferson, in a desk drawer at Monticello, is said to have had the constitutions of 100 democracies?all failures: these statements preface Mr. Baker's explanation of the endurance of ours...
...libretto for A Light from St. Agnes was taken from a play written and acted by Minnie Maddern Fiske. The theatrical lady placed the scene near her birthplace, in a tough Louisiana town. Toinette (heroine) is the unsavory mistress of Michel, drunken leader of drunks. The curtain rises upon a chapel lit by a rose window and the interior of a hovel. Within the chapel rests the body of Agnes Devereaux, saintly lady. The village priest tells Toinette that Agnes Devereaux has made her the especial object of her benevolence, and Toinette is about to soften into sullen goodness when...
...Wise-Crackers. Gilbert Seldes, self-appointed arbiter of the stage, the screen and literature, has abruptly dropped his defense and written a play. He did more than drop his defense; he tied his hands behind his back. For his play is one of the most astoundingly inefficient that the oldest inhabitant can recall from the pen of a presumably intelligent person...
Having perused this dignified and informing head, the readers of the Times folded their papers to read the article that followed. In anticipation of the obituary, which they knew would be capably, decently written, they perhaps poured out their coffee or lit a cigaret, before their eyes again returned to the page. But the first sentence of General Rogers' obituary made them gasp and hold the paper closer; the second and third sentences made them cry out with laughter or scowl with well-bred disapproval, according to their temperaments. For the article under the headline began as follows...