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...interest. She is pretty, but wears dresses that add nothing to her charm and years to her age. One wonders that Lee Baker, who grates his teeth as well as he can in the sinister role, does not prefer Lilyan Tashman, who seems at least as real as her slang...
...small college. Unlike most of its predecessors, the veils of idealism with which college is customarily enshrouded, are torn aside. A voice from the distance seems to thunder, "Look, Here you see it as it really is." Conversations are reproduced, in so far as possible, as they actually occur. Slang, slip-shod phrases and smut--all are prevalent. The evils of fraternities and hazing are vividly depicted. Our low state of morals is exposed. Our drunken habits are paraded. I hesitate to contemplate our dances...
...know of no other American poet who has succeeded so subtly in combining real sentiment with the vernacular. His poems in slang have been at once beautiful, tender, well written. He has intuitive knowledge of the boy and girl of shop and street, their trials, their loves. If his play possesses the same quality of joy and sorrow that is shown in his poetry, it should run forever, and even if he forgets the popular accents of New York on the sands of Palm Beach, he cannot lose there his wistful, shy boys and girls who drift through his pages...
Shaw's play is totally modernized. English, and even American slang salts the speeches of his characters. His mocking wit runs through it. Yet even Snaw's wit cannot destroy Shaw's emotion. In the writing of this play the old sinner and cynic writes himself down as an incorrigible idealist...
...single alleged error for which it is impossible to find plausible justification. Numberless expressions condemned by the purists of today can be found in the greatest classics written in the English language. After all, is it not a sign of intelligence rather than the reverse to use slang? For it is a well worn platitude that the slang of today is the speech of tomorrow; even the majestic Plato used slang in his deepest philosophical works because of its freshness and vividness. One is inclined to impute the passiveness of Mount Holyoke students under this oppressive regulation to ignorance...