Word: offing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1920
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
The Dramatic Club made an excellent choice for its play this year. "The Dragon" is a delightful medley of old Celtic folk tales, Gilbert and Sullivan successes and the finished dramatic technique and the kindly human sympathy conspicuous in Lady Gregory's works. In its reminiscence of old tales, it...
Subscriptions continued to come in steadily yesterday from the dormitories but not from the men who live outside. Every effort is being made to get into communication with as many of these students as possible by telephone. If the 100 percent mark is to be reached by 6 P. M...
With the poetry there is always the delicious humor. The logic of the Queen, the Princess's self-sufficient, practical step-mother, is not more unanswerable than Gilbertian when she suggests the way for the girl to escape the doom foretold by the stars--that she is to be ate...
How everything ends happily as of course it should in a fairy-tale, has already been told. It should be noted, though, that no fairy-tale of old ever had quite so happy an ending as this genial one of Lady Gregory's.
Only a company of professional stars could give a performance of "The Dragon" entirely worthy of the play. This naturally was not to be expected last evening, though the actors of the Dramatic Club have been admirably trained by Mr. J. W. D. Seymour. The chief weakness of the company...