Word: yes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...think there is a great popular demand for foreign productions? To a certain extent, yes, but not, I believe, so much because they are foreign as because they are high-grade. Of course, there will always be fad-hunters who are after something out of the ordinary, but they form a small part of the theatre-going public. Eleanora Duse has been a tremendous attraction. So have the Moscow Players and the ChauveSouris. Translations from the French and Russian have been very popular. Is it because they are foreign? I don't think so. Last year I practically concluded arrangements...
...Correspondents' Association said " no." But Mr. Pickett applied to Secretary Slemp, who said "Yes," and Mr. Pickett's representative attended two conferences...
...Yes, I think that the Harvard students made a very creditable mob of Thebans", said Sir John Martin-Harvey to a CRIMSON reporter on Monday night after the first performance of "Oedipus Rex" at the Boston Opera House. The noted British actor was resting after his first appearance as Oedipus, king of Thebes in this classic tragedy of Sophocles, which was produced for the first time on Monday evening...
...Yes,--even greater than Hamlet, although it is very difficult to compare the two. It depends very much on the temperament of the actor. My own tends toward the Greek drama. The character of Hamlet is greater in scope than that of Oedipus; its philosophy is more profound and infinitely more intricate. The character of Oedipus is less complicated, less subtle. It is simple and straightforward, and for that very reason Sophocles has made it more impressive in the vastness of its emotions...
...spirited woman with great eagerness for the affair of the moment. She is at work on a new novel, to follow her The Shadowy Third, a recent volume of short stories. It is to be a Virginia story- yes!-but beyond that she does not go-for it spoils a story to talk of it. When will it be finished? Well- there is a year's work behind, and a year's, perhaps more, ahead. Who knows...