Word: abraham
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Except for Colonel McCranie, in which part Rufus Hill is everything that a Southern colonel ought to be, the cast is composed entirely of negro actors who accentuate the distinctive quality of the play. Thomas Moseley fills the difficult role of Abraham, the ill-starred hero of the piece, with credit, while the minor characters introduced as back-ground or as comic relief are so natural and at times so amusing that it is difficult to find any point in which improvement might be suggested...
...been singled out from many others for the honor makes those who go to see it inclined to inquire closely into what justification the play presents for the judges' decision. To the audience which saw the opening night in Boston at the Arlington Theater of Paul Green's "In Abraham's Bosom," however, there was little doubt but that this play fully merited some such honor as the Pulitzer award it received last winter...
Cleveland had the 1924 G. O. P. convention. Chicago had five in a row before that. Chicago has had nine Republican conventions since the G. O. Party nominated its second candidate (Abraham Lincoln) there in 1860. The National Republican executive secretary (Lawyer Roy Owen West) is a Chicagoan, and, despite all the talk, Illinois is not likely to be embarrassed by a favorite son. The dissonant quatrian...
...know, furthermore, perfectly well that if the party machinery is against enforcement, it cannot be enforced. "I do not want to be misunderstood in this fight, although it seems difficult not to be misunderstood. I am against the liquor traffic. In that respect I take my Republicanism direct from Abraham Lincoln, who denounced the liquor traffic as the second curse of mankind...
Died. Anna B. von Moll, 91, who sewed the buttons on Abraham Lincoln's 1861 inaugural suit; in Chicago...