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Word: langner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...deft slapstick and the high cyniscism of "Caprice". Ben Jonson gave the Fox his being and his taste to trick the would be inheritors, who licked his hands for the delicious death sweat. Since then "Volpone" has been through the adaptation of Stefan Sweig and the translation of Ruth Langner. Even now, in the buzz of Mosca the Gadfly, the pandering servant who wins gold for Volpone to dirk him in the end with his own weapons of pen, ink and attested parchment, one can recognize that wise hardness that was to stiffen the ease of Elizabethan lyricism...

Author: By G. K. W., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 1/15/1929 | See Source »

Henry-Behave. Lawrence Langner, a director of the Theatre Guild, and, therefore, supposedly a gentleman of taste, has just issued his mild endorsement of the cake-eater. Henry Wilton, pompous, ultra-puritanical pillar of the community suffers an attack of amnesia. With all inhibitions medically banished into oblivion, he proceeds to bedazzle himself in loud golf clothes, flirt with boarding house girls, reel off on a drunken spree, precipitate a brawl in the country club, and in other ways prove himself at heart a real, human personality. As a result of this exhibition, he finds himself, on recovery, a nominee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Sep. 6, 1926 | 9/6/1926 | See Source »

...Guild's Board of Managers, responsible for its choice of plays and general policy, consists of "a banker, a lawyer, an actress, an artist, a producer and a playwright"; that is, in the same order, Maurice Wertheim, Lawrence Langner, Helen Westley, Lee Simonson, Theresa Helburn, and Philip Moeller. Of these, Theresa Helburn, tireless and ubiquitous Executive Director and Mrs. Westley, an accomplished actress of vigorous originality, were the pair chiefly accountable for the birth and rise of the Guild. Finding the theatre "frankly commercial," the Guild has never posed as a society of pure artists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Cornerstone | 12/15/1924 | See Source »

...Haven, Conn., March 25--Yale water-polo team defeated Columbia here tonight 33 to 14, clinching the championship. Langner and Post starred for Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Water-Poloists Win | 3/26/1924 | See Source »

Other plays which follow that are especially worthy of notice are Harry Wagstaff Gribble's "All Gummed Up", really delicious, though not always clear, satire; George Kelly's "Finders-Keepers", with its very human incident as a basis; and Lawrence Langner twentieth-century-Columbine-and-Pierrot play, "Matinata...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 5/26/1923 | See Source »

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