Word: angeles
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...comic interlude Balaam appears belaboring his ass, which balks at the shining angel in his path. The High Priest was also intended as a comic figure. In scorn and derision he listens to the prophecies, laughs raucously at Saint Augustine's chant, and harangues his Jewish followers. He contrasts grotesquely with the sober, dignified Augustus who calmly opposes his biblical arguments to the raging High Priest and his followers...
...cast announced by Robinson is as follows: Isaiah H. C. Fox '28 Aaroa M. L. Bell '29 Sibyle Helen Chandler High Priest G. K. Bishop '27 St. Augustine G. G. Bishop '27 Mary Helen Lewis First Angel Rhodita Edwards Elizabeth Grace Michelman Joseph C. C. Woolley '29 First King Murray Pease '26 Second King D. W. Moreland '28 Third King F. Kent Smith '29 First Messenger Charles Hicks '29 Second Messenger W. A. MeCausland '29 Herod A. L. Dickson '27 First Shepherd Charles Leatherbee '29 Second Shepherd James Pates '28 Devil D. F. Robinson '26 Second Angel Mary Coperton Third...
...passing through the unfavorable second stage of biography; and he is unfortunate in having reached this point at a time when debunking is the first literary industry in the world. George S. Hellman's "The True Stevenson" was written to overthrow the conception of Stevenson as a whimsical angel. The public has been led into this error by prejudiced biographers; and Mr. Hellman is the son of his time in rejoicing, always without prejudice, over the task of setting the public right...
...latest person chosen to nourish the joy that lies in being shown that, in actual fact, the idol's feet are of a very crumbly clay. In due time, he will come into his own again. The true Stevenson will at length emerge, a man somewhat between the idealistic angel against whom Mr. Hellman has delivered his broadside, and the opposite conception which he himself has delineated...
...tell thee, churlish priest, A ministring angel shall my sister...