Word: playboy
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Irish Players, rest their souls! continue to obsess the undergraduate Extreme Left. In the very slender current issue of the Advocate we are blessed with a burlesque of Synge, a parallel sketch of "The Scottish Players," and, as a communication, a defence of "The Playboy." Acknowledging the fidelity of the Advocate as a mirror of what most engages the literary consciousness of undergraduates, when it is pointed out that an editorial paragraph discusses the Harvard Prize Play, and three other pages bristle with reviews of plays in Boston, this seems to be going a bit strong. Particularly as there...
...drama, then, such an overwhelming issue in Cambridge? The defence of "The Playboy" by one who signs himself "Van N," is intelligent and spirited, but scarcely contemporary. The reviews, as routine, may be allowed to pass. "The Scottish Players" is thin anecdote, defensible if the manuscripts in the upper right-hand drawer are few. Alone of all this, the parody of Synge by Mr. McVeagh has excuse for its ink. As this...
...actual language of the performance he witnessed. Thus the language of the reviews of "The Blue Bird" and of "Kathleen Ni Hoolihan" approaches critical dignity, while the dialect of the reviews of the musical comedies suggests the influence of comic opera lyrics. Mr. McMahon's letter on "The Playboy" capably presents one side of the discussion that has risen over that drama...