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...first appeared in pre-revolutionary St. Petersburg, has since performed in Paris and Manhattan. In costume and makeup, Actor Chenkin is equally plausible as a bearded gaffer or a youngster with Jewish ritual earlocks. Here he sings in Yiddish and Hebrew, deftly sets forth the garrulity, gaiety, self-pitying anguish of an Eastern European Jew. Typical song: Scholoch S'udes, in which a rabbi unctuously presides at a banquet...
...Charles Dickens were alive today and chanced to drop in at the Plymouth Theatre for an evening's entertainment, he might have occasion to substantiate rather ruefully the age-old advice against indiscreet love-letters. One can easily picture the squirming anguish of a sensitive artist treated to a dramatic portrayal, or betrayal, of his most intimate moments. But time has spared him this embarrassment, and an inquisitive public will find added gratification of its curiosity about the truth of the hidden private lives of its great in "Romantic Mr. Dickens...
...publication of George's first novel, Home to Our Mountains; 2) George's filial literary relationship with his editor, Foxhall Edwards (in real life Scribner's book-wise Maxwell Perkins); 3) the scandal which George's novel caused in Libya Hill and the anguish this caused George; 4) the real-estate boom and moral deterioration of Libya Hill, and the town's collapse along with the rest of the U. S. in the 1929 crash; 5) George's four years of soul searching in sordid, proletarian South Brooklyn; 6) George's life...
This week the war was a year old. Twelve months of anguish had trespassed on human hope. Young men with smiles had been struck down, boundaries had been swept aside as lightly as snow, loyalties had cringed and sickened, the whole world had learned to fear, suspect, hate. Among other things it had become plain that while Germans were without question the most meticulous, thorough, shrewd, methodical fighters in the world, Britons had dug down to the marrow of each British bone and to the ganglion of each British nerve, and demonstrated that despite gross muddleheadedness and inefficiency, Britain could...
...lorgnettes. Her impish weekly literary column in the New York Herald Tribune, "Turns With a Bookworm," is appropriately signed I. M. P. Between columns Critic Paterson writes novels for much the same reason that the Irishman liked to be hit on the head-because they cause her so much anguish that mere personal calamities shrivel by comparison...