Word: written
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Just because some crank throws away "70 agate lines valued at about $1.20 each" for a few days, is no reason why you should print stuff that only an eccentric could have written and that is nearer blasphemy than "advertising for the Catholic Church...
...something of relief to find a play in which scholarship and a sense of beauty are predominant, particularly a play from England, from which domain the deftly decadent effusions of Michael Arlen have this season been most conspicuous. Ashley Dukes, London critic, has written his comedy around a night at an inn, an old time inn, from the shingle of which the title of the play is taken...
Easy Come, Easy Go. This play is advertised as the 100th from the pen of Owen Davis. As a matter of fact he has written 130 odd, and become financially at least, the most successful of our native dramatists. Among his plays are the appalling melodramas of the early days (Nellie the Beautiful Cloak Model), riotous farces (The Nervous Wreck) and the sound and moving Pulitzer Prize Play, Icebound. This latest falls into the second category...
...daughter Elizabeth. He had friends to soothe him, drinks to amuse him. "I ate, drank, smoked and talked too much," said he. Yet spiritual hunger rather than oafish gluttony spoke in the fierceness with which he whipped up the clever and sometimes moving music which Mr. Honegger has written about King David...
...utilize, too, the environment in which that life must be lived. There will be diminishing place for any arid or ornamental "scholarship" (that is, mere erudition for its own sake out of books), for any complacent self-exclusion in a life of purely intellectual contemplation. Before anything worthwhile is written, something must be done, something must be lived! Men and women will be too busy, too much occupied with exploration into fields hitherto beyond even imagination, to tolerate the existence of--much less to support by their labor--any detached, privileged class of "Thinkers". The aim of education all along...