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...twerp, as Reader Propes should know without dictionary-thumbing, is a small, pretentious, ineffective and unpleasant person whose mode of self-expression falls between a twitter and a chirp...
...especially when comparisons are made with the conditions in the Tsarist regime under which she also lived. Her intimate knowledge with her subject and the skillful way in which the facts are set forth demand recognition but it should be remembered that the author is used to a different mode of living and is somewhat too old to adapt her ways to that of a new system. She undoubtedly presents the facts faithfully. Our only question is about the facts she does not present...
Original sets by Edward Melcharth, famous London director, will provide a background for Dunster House actors in "Marriage a la Mode" tomorrow night. The production is being managed and directed by Robert Gale Noyes, author and composer of last year's opers and well known for his before-the-curtain talks. A Lawrence Lowell '77, president-emeritus, will be a guest at the House Dinner preceding the play and subsequent festivities...
...among others was pleased to meet my friend John Dryden who did talk to meet my friend John Dryden who did talk to me of the purpose of poetry that it was to "instruct delightfully" and I sought to draw him out to talk of his "Marriage a la Mode." He did not understand when I did tell him one day it would delight young students even as a Christmas play so I turned to philosophy and I did hear him say that Nature was the source and end and test of art. This coming from so great a scholar...
...Dragon. East of Java was adapted from Gouverneur Morris' Tiger Island by able Screenwriter James Creelman, and regardless of its minor sins against credulity it has a reckless tempo and a tendency for killing off its cast, unusual and charming as a contrast to the current prissy mode of photographing people who sit around on sofas talking imitation Philip Barry...