Word: anna
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Anna Botsford Comstock, professor of nature study at Cornell, is 68 years old and studied at Cornell. She is the wife of Prof. John Henry Comstock, eminent entomologist, with whom she collaborated. She has made a special study of wood engraving and entomological illustration, and received medals for engraving at the Buffalo and Paris expositions. She is widely known as a lecturer and writer on nature study, the author of numerous handbooks on butterflies, bees, trees, etc., and the editor of the Nature Study Review...
...Association, 1922), Lillien J. Martin, Mary W. Calkins, Ethel Puffer Howes, Christine Ladd-Franklin or Helen B. Woolley, psychologists; Florence Bascom, geologist; Alice C. Fletcher (who died last month) or Elsie Clews Parsons, anthropologists; Cornelia Clapp, Katharine Foot or Mary J. Rathbun, zoologists; Lydia DeWitt or Louise Pearce, pathologists; Anna Johnson Pell or Charlotte Scott, mathematicians; Mary E. Pennington, chemist; Ellen Churchill Semple, geographer; S. Josephine Baker or Daisy Robinson, sanitarians, and several others. All of these women have national or international scientific reputations...
...plot revolves about the activities of a group marooned in the seaweed waste of the Sargasso Sea. The story is luridly unimportant. The acting, by Anna Q. Nilsson and Milton Sills, is capable. The salt, seafaring atmosphere created by particularly excellent photography places the picture easily in the first ten of the year's releases. The Girl I Loved. Charles Ray has returned. His current medium is a play adapted (freely, after the manner of moviewrights) from a poem of James Whitcomb Riley...
...even in the Yiddish Art Theatre, the tendency was to make them focal, to play for the star. A perfect cast in almost every case was that of Saturday afternoon. Ivan Lasareff as the actor, Giorgi Burdzhaloff as Kostilyoff, Vera Pashennaya as his wife, and Nina Litovtseva as Anna created unforgetably fine characterizations. The Pepel of Peter Baksheieff, while it was exceptional in its way, seemed out of tune with the playing of the rest of the company...
...limitless life to it. Characters, regardless of importance, had individual "business" to do. The scenes that remain indelibly on the mind after seeing "The Lower Depths" were the one in which Luka hid to hear the discussion between Vassilisa and Pepel. Luka's praying by the bed of Anna, and the amazing beginning of the fourth act when there are three groups on the stage playing games and singing, and there is life and vitality and beauty in each one of the groups...