Word: act
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...repertoire consisted of one three-act play, 'The Dragon' by Lady Gregory, and three one-act plays, 'Love is the Best Doctor' by Moliere, 'Paolo and Francesca' by Stephen Phillips, and 'The Gentleman in Black' by W. S. Gilbert. We gave these performances on successive nights...
...great worry, and the tyrant corporal, muddle through the war somehow. On the occasion of a camp entertainment, Old Bill and Little Alf are sewed into a stuffed horse to take part in a play entitled Black Beauty or A Horse's Sacrifice. In the middle of the act, a hasty retreat is ordered. No one has time to extricate Bill and Alf from their equine environment. The subsequent adventures of a horse's upper on four human legs, among inebriated German invaders' leads to a timely heroism. Bill becomes a sergeant, pays back all the corporal...
...Motherless Child") of the Negro's inability to find himself in complicated mazes of the white world; and Mr. Robeson's personality. His organ-like voice croons, booms in husky, mellow tones filled with all the languor and ebullience of his naive race. In the third act he appears stripped to the buff-an Apollo in black marble, a sight for any sculptor. Across the footlights prejudice turns to admiration. Black Boy, with the debased morale of the U. S. Negro, can see no beauty in his own people. Even passion withers when his sweetheart is revealed...
...judge Mr. Bennett's latest novel by his own literary standards were an act of tolerance which would demand the suppression of fervid personal reaction on the part of the critics as well as an intimate knowledge of Mr. Bennetts psychology. Assuming, then, that "Lord Raingo" is all it is intended to be, the reader's disappointment mounts through nearly 400 pages from mild distaste to a peak of pure chagrin and positive depression...
...spiteful robbery and act of vandalism" declared Arthur J. Clement, proprietor of the shop when questioned yesterday, or perhaps it wasn't. Maybe the supplies just ran low at some party and the boys dropped over for a little provender. They took five Dunhill pipes, a mecrschaum, a siphon, and a Dunhill lady lighter, or rather a lighter made by Dunhill for ladies. Much as I would like to believe in the latter as an explanation, I must confess to a fear that this is but another spiteful attack by some sinister and hidden enemy...