Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York World's Fair will produce the greatest boom in the history of the State. . . . Surely every automobile owner and driver in the State of New York should welcome the opportunity to act as an ambassador of good-will for the Empire State...
...fell from $6.25 to $3.25, the Erie thereupon defaulted on $1,849.000 interest due on six bond issues. Unless some drastic remedy could be found in the six-month period of grace provided for in the bonds, * the Erie seemed headed for reorganization under section 77 of the Bankruptcy Act...
Just in case some of the audience came in late, Act III takes everybody willy-nilly back again to the party in Act I. This time even the dunces in the back row can hear the irony of the Conways' hopes., The audience knows how time will cheat them, already feels a little cheated itself...
Novelist Priestley has said that "the audience will accept almost anything during the first act." What he makes them accept in Time and the Conways' first act is a boring family party. The Conways are celebrating Daughter Kay's (Jessica Tandy) 21st birthday by playing charades and talking big about the future. All of them look forward to successful careers, happy marriages. Suddenly Kay, Cassandra-like, peers into the night and foresees the drab reality...
...Act II, 19 years later, shows how right she was. Kay, who wanted to be a novelist, is a journalist and hates it. Robin (Christopher Quest) is a no-account. Madge (Joan Henley), who dreamed of reforming the world, is an embittered schoolteacher. Hazel (Hazel Terry), who wanted a handsome husband with a yacht, has only a husband. Little Carol (Mary Jones), who loved life so passionately, is dead. Mrs. Conway (Dame Sybil Thorndike) is aging gracelessly. And so it goes. Only Alan (Godfrey Kenton) is contented as a shabby clerk because he has a new conception of time. Time...