Word: annees
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The play, translated by John Masefield from the Norwegian of Wiers-Jenssen, is not so happily inspired. It seems amorphous in character. Starting with the revelation that witchcraft was a medie val actuality, it proceeds to trace the growth of witch-power in young Anne Pedersdotter, second wife of the...
Act I discloses the populace in pursuit of a witch, made fearsomely real by Mme. Ouspenskaya; Act II: Anne's growing consciousness that she too is of the devil's tribe. Just as the crisis begins to crys tallize, the medieval conception of passion as the spirit of...
Married. Edgar Lewis Marston, 66, financier; to Mrs. Anne Ellis, 36; in Los Angeles; by the eminent Dr. Charles Frederic Aked.
The casting is excellent throughout: unquestionably it would have been a dreary evening otherwise. Thomas Mitchell and Anne Brewer are capable and convincing in the leading roles, but the laurels go to Edwin Lewis Phillips, who plays, and admirably, the "Skeeter" of the old days.
In literature, Anne Parrish's Victor Campion (The Perennial Bachelor) and Sherwood Anderson's Fred Grey (Dark Laughter) are proclaimed the best recent examples of "that cruel maldevelopment." Childhood's innocence is not scorned. The doctor appraises it warmly in the writings of A. A Milne, Henry...