Word: angells
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Oklahoma City, W. H. Van Demeer prepared for Army life by incorporating himself, appointed six vice presidents, all female, instructed each one in her duty. The first is to send him fried chicken; the second, chocolate cake; the third, angel-food cake and cookies; the fourth, socks and mufflers; the fifth, sweaters; the sixth, magazines...
...Angel Street. A genteel Victorian parlor becomes a scarifying torture chamber (TIME...
Tonight and tomorrow night the Radcliffe Idler Club will present as its spring production the best mystery play of the last few seasons. "Ladies in Retirement" was the first of the long series of murder plays, both comic and tragic, that have flooded Broadway--culminating in this season's "Angel Street." But "Ladies" has not yet been surpassed for not only is it excellently constructed through plot and dialogue, but it is also finely executed in characterization and in use of comic relief upon a tragic theme. Anyone who saw the Flora Robson production of this play will remember...
...instance, is so admirably constructed, so logical in development, so clever in its thematic manipulation, that it seems, at times, too pat. But emotion is not lacking in it, or in "Watch on the Rhine" which builds to a tremendous climax of sentiment. Other recent melodramas, such as "Angel Street" and "Ladies In Retirement," are based primarily on a chain of circumstances, cunningly joined together by the author, but mood is an essential part of the atmosphere of these plays, and sentiment is obviously used to create sympathy for the murdered ones or the murderer...
Hangover Square, by the author of two hair-raising plays -Rope's End (1929) and this winter's Angel Street -is a psychiatric case history written as a horror story. Its victim, George Harvey Bone, is a big, bewildered Englishman who suffers from "dead moods." Textbooks would call him a schizophrenic. When George meets Netta, a beauty who has the torpid heartlessness of a late Roman Emperor, he collapses into a state of slavery which is emotionally uninhabitable. When Netta and her friends persecute George, just for the fun of it, his "spells," once mere vacant withdrawals from...