Word: beggars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Erskine maintains the integrity and complexity of his character, and the reader is impressed even if he is disillusioned and mortified. Thomas makes the serpentine Cleopatra a naughty high school girl magnifying her most minute sins into heinous debauchery Anyone having entertained admiration for Shakespeare's Cleopatra whose person "beggar'd all description" will put aside "Cleopatra's Private Diary," the appetite cloyed, the effect being similar to that obtained by eating cheap chocolates...
...Boyle's two choicest Bulls, both delivered before the Irish Parliament, were: 1) 'All along the untrodden pathway of the future I can see the footprints of an unseen hand'; and 2) 'Why should we beggar ourselves to benefit posterity? What has posterity ever done...
Again Mr. Abramson is notably good as the beggar in "Hunger", and the performance as a whole is smooth and even Mr. Huberman as the poet looks his part, and makes it sufficiently wistful, and Miss Fay Goeil plays the Girl with taste and conviction. The play, written some years ago for the English 47 Workshop, is by Eugene Fillot. Its moral is perhaps a little obvious, but it does succeed in fixing one's attention and curiosity upon the revelation awaited from the lips of the Satisfied...
...this beggar, think him right...
...road gang. Buck Merritt gets his pardon just then and comes back for Angel and Little Buck. The primitive feelings of mountain people are conscientiously concentrated, but drama is not felt, as it was in Poet Heyward's other story, Porgy (1925), about a purple-black beggar of Charleston. He has let the beauty of his new locale run away with him. What he should have written was an idyl. What he has written is a poetic scenario...