Word: attacks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Henry-Behave. Lawrence Langner, a director of the Theatre Guild, and, therefore, supposedly a gentleman of taste, has just issued his mild endorsement of the cake-eater. Henry Wilton, pompous, ultra-puritanical pillar of the community suffers an attack of amnesia. With all inhibitions medically banished into oblivion, he proceeds to bedazzle himself in loud golf clothes, flirt with boarding house girls, reel off on a drunken spree, precipitate a brawl in the country club, and in other ways prove himself at heart a real, human personality. As a result of this exhibition, he finds himself, on recovery, a nominee...
...silk-lined coffin, the head on an embroidered pillow. Solemnly, Mrs. Perry related the deceased's virtues and exploits, beginning with the day in 1913 when she bought him, "the cunningest" French poodle puppy, in San Francisco; tearfully ending with her "dear Phil's" heart attack several months ago, his removal to a nursery adjoining her regal bedroom; his brave struggle for health, aided by veterinaries and a full-time nurse; his decline, his last look, his death. . . . The watchers filed behind Mrs. Perry to an ornate marble mausoleum on the Perry estate; bowed their heads during...
...Death came to Stuart Pratt Sherman, 44, sometime professor of English literature, since 1924 editor of Books, the literary supplement of the New York Herald-Tribune. With Mrs. Sherman, he was canoeing off Manistee, Mich., and failed to swim ashore with her when capsized. Apparent cause: heart attack. Literary critics axe few in the U. S. Cultivation of the critical attitude against a background of letters, and its regular exercise for the promotion of better writing and the edification of the public, is practiced professionally by a scanty corporal's guard. Critic Sherman was eminently of this group, despite...
...from Maryland's Eastern Shore. And not before-with many a "Macte!", "Eheu!", "Hercle!" and "Conclamatum est!" from the emancipated Higbie Chaffinch - a late and vinous banquet had been served in the latter's homestead with Moggs and Kendrick Glasby present, a banquet that incited a dastardly attack by the Ku Klux Klan ("a boy scout movement for children of 40 ... footpads and submorons, Sir!") which was repelled and its leader, the Rev. Pudley, captured in his white skirts. Nor before Ruth and young Kendrick, within a few hours of meeting, walked in a panic summer midnight...
Normal revue humor on large stages usually depends on the comedian's ability to shout: "That was no lady, that was his wife." In a miniature, satirical show like Americana the attack is subtler. A satire on Rotary Club speeches, a burlesque jazz opera, a tabloid newspaper number, and a burlesque Hamlet done in the manner of The Student Prince are the major features. There are only a handful of chorus girls; each in her time plays many parts. The scenery is by the briskly amusing John Held Jr. Charles Butterworth, Notre Dame 1923 and utterly unknown to Broadway...