Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...association of these two events must at once arouse a storm of skeptical inquiries. Even the optimist cannot dream of advances in naval science which will assure perfect safety beneath the water. There-has been during the two years just elapsed, however, time for considerable progress towards this goal. It is to be sincerely hoped that every effort has been enlisted in the past, and that increasing courage will be manifested in the future towards the furtherance of a safety programme. Humanity is not prepared to stand for another disaster...
...thing that was being presented a year ago at this time. From unruly Mexico, the Club has shifted to the most polite drawing-room atmosphere of proper England. Of course, A. A. Milne is much too successful in juvenile writing to let slip an opportunity like the Barrie-Kipling dream scene in which the appearance of a Nite, a Squier, and a Buteus Maiden would do any child's heart good. The adult portions of the play are composed of slightly bored dialogue in Act I, a not too effective suggestion of strain in the first scene...
...direction and staging are at a safe distance from the amateurish. The Mannock library, thrice appearing looks as it should, like the room of a political and unliterary owner. The dream scene in Act II is presented in a properly confused manner, and the nook mid sunny spots of greenery, where the Rt. Hon. Selby Mannock grows romantic, beyond doubt is the sort of place where that sort of man would do precisely that...
...minor post in his deadening little world of public success. But his memory has been prodded by the appearance of his school-days chum; and when he goes to make an important speech in the shires he sleeps in the bedroom which was the headquarters of his early dream-world. He dreams; his beloved Sally is there as always. In the morning he finds his "beauteous maiden" seated on the garden wall, so romantically like the dream that he renounces his career, and the high likelihood of the Prime Minister's portfolio, resolved at last to grasp the romance which...
...cracks in Milue's poor construction with good directorial coment. The result is a good production of a faulty, but not uninteresting play Act I is dull writing: in Act II Milne strains our imagination and the physical possibilities of the stage in the arrangement of the dream scene. Act III is almost worthy of Milne as we have come to know his fine abilities. Visually the production is admirable the stage settings and the lighting express the play beautifully and with taste...