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Their first production, Loud Speaker, was written by John Howard Lawson, author of Processional (TIME, Jan. 26, 1925). As expected, it is staged against a "constructivist" background and presents the subjective state of the principal characters as well as their objective actions. The virtue of such staging is that, by affording the playwright several planes of action on one stage, it allows greater flexibility than is permitted by the rigid three-walled limitations of ordinary theatre. Thus, in Loud Speaker, the candidate for governor of the State may be discovered mulling over his radio speech in one corner...
...through the streets of Oxford town, late one night last week, loud-voiced roisterers lurched and reeled in gold-buttoned blue dinner jackets. It was the Bullingdon Club, in high fettle after an annual dinner, its first in a new hall on the outskirts of town. Before the members reached their beds they had run up a score of 500 broken windows (by hasty count of righteous newsgatherers). Oxford proctors frowned ominously, and went into conference...
...trepidations had on freshmen stomachs; found: "When the freshman is in this unsettled emotional state we have a look at his internal mechanism. And just before he steps up to the fluoroscope, we heighten the effect by springing a booby trap on him - a loose board that makes a loud bang. In that emotional condition we find that his stomach has crawled up the length of several vertebrae. A year later, as a sophomore, we find his stomach back in place, where it ought to be. When you hear a woman describe her fright by saying, 'My heart came...
...train lurched and jangled he took no notice, but kept his whole attention on TIME. Finally he settled down to read a long article. At first he seemed taken up with the meat of it; then suddenly his eyes began to twinkle again and he chuckled out loud. "By George!" he said, slapping his thigh, and turning to a man beside him, "That was a well written article." Then he stopped, and seemed embarrassed to have spoken. But the man next to him began to ask about TIME, and when the old man got off at Wall Street the other...
...loud were the praises for the Administration for having made its appointments from "career men," not politicians...