Word: clever
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This story of a clever but lazy woodcutter forced to assume the role of a doctor is one of Moliere's best and most popular plays. It is full of the lively and sparkling humor which always accompanies his stinging satires. To achieve the full realization of this quality on the stage without seriously sacrificing an appearance of reality, especial credit is due to R. D. Merion for his absolutely superb acting in bringing out the full possibilities of the character of Sganarells, the fake doctor. Even the most sedate Cambridge matrons were set to laughing by his extremely amusing...
Pittsburgh, the team that gave Army its first and Notre Dame its only defeat this season, played clever defensive football against Stanford after Warren Heller's first-period touchdown had settled the game...
...human existence or should one go out into the wilds far from monetary cares amid the birds and fish and there look at one's soul. All this is quite apparent at the end of the second act, which by the way, is brilliant in spots and abounds in clever banter; there is, however, no real need of prolonging the third act with a reiteration of the case before staging the long anticipated ending. A shorter scene would perhaps have been more appropriate...
...Nick Potter gave an admirable performance and Richard Sullivan '35 did a good piece of work as the drunken and disillusioned brother. Katherine Embree was adequate if somewhat stiff as Julia Seton and Thomas Radcliffe '35 was staid enough as the father, Edward Seton. The lines, of course, are clever, and the declamation of Nick Potter during the course of the New Year's party is a triumph. On the whole the production, aside from a certain stiffness and lack of smoothness, is satisfactorily done; it might be even more appreciated were it not for the memory of Ann Harding...
...gustily, and was producing a most amazing effect-exactly as though a flageolet were being played by a human performer. . . ." Through London's clubs last month droned the account of Sir Richard Arthur Surtees Paget's "most extrawd'nry" experience in that bathroom and his clever solution of the mystery, which he promptly reported to Nature. Few men in England could have resolved the matter so promptly as did this inquisitive sexagenarian baronet, barrister, linguist, musician, acoustician. Sir Richard's musical ear told him that the tune he heard that evening was in E major, with...