Word: written
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play that was written 150 years ago, assuming a capable performance, is pretty much of a fixed quantity, so far as box-office success is concerned. Those whose tastes incline to the classic will patronize it, and not quite succeed in filling all the seats,--everyone else will automatically stay away. This is unfortunate in the case of "The School for Scandal", for as sheer entertainment, all hobbledehoy about art and the higher drama aside, it is probably the best play now showing in Boston. If the theatregoing public would only view it with the same open-mindedness given...
...idea is surely unfortunate, particularly at this time. Few play-wrights have even gauged the market with greater acumen than these two: and few ever wrote more distinctly to please the common man. It is greatly to be regretted that a play like "The School for Scandal" which was written originally for the entertainment of the masses should now have become so exclusively the property of the upper crust of the theatregoing public...
...book-reading public as well as for the shop girls and mechanics who entertain themselves on the Sabbath with the misadventures of financiers and stage beauties. Consequently, not a year passes without a tremendous sale for some book on the private affairs of the great and near great, written by a person who is blatantly on the inside of everything, and can entertain the curious with bons mots and moth-eaten scandal for four hundred pages. The Greville Memoirs (unexpurgated--think of it!) are shortly to be published in this country; and the juicier bits about Queen Victoria, Lord Byron...
...Mutual Admiration Society held the first meeting of its annual convention at the Copley Theatre yesterday afternoon and for the price of admission the literate public can enjoy a return engagement of the Society on Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Frances A. F. Saltonstall has written a play with a Boston accent on the cerebrations of the human brain and the success of mental telepathy and has titled it, "As He Thinketh...
...fortnight ago the Editor and Publisher brought to light a new fact: The story about Thaw was written by no ordinary reporter, but by the "Tabloid Ringmaster" of the New York Mirror-Editor Philip Payne...