Word: angeles
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...enters. He admits he is a fool but he tells not his beliefs about some things lest they be stolen from him. The "Fool" leaves and the philosopher continues his speculations. He is about to call his students when he sees standing in the aperture to his study an angel, and anatomical anger, of course, one really anatomically possible since it had no wings. This creature points significantly to the hour glass and warns the teacher, at the moment he would ring for his students, that he has but one hour to live; that his ultimate salvation, after penance...
...thoroughly convincing. "The Hour Glass" is, in feeling, setting, and lesson a morality of a half dozen centuries ago. Mr. Sinclair, the "Wise Man," overcame his slight accent; there was no disharmonizing detail in setting or in technique, and assuredly no actress could play the part of an angel more impressively and more movingly than did that remarkable actress, Miss Allgood; yet wihtal, though for the moment the play was suggestive, appealing and forceful, back of any appreciation of it was the indomitable doubt as to the place of an angel,--a messenger from the clouds,--upon the stage. What...