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Other well regarded serious plays are ESCAPE; BLESS YOU, SISTER; CIVIC REPERTORY THEATRE'S series; BEHOLD THE BRIDEGROOM...
...Behold, The Bridegroom. It is customary with playwrights to complete their essays with a curtain. George Kelly has dared to be more complicated. There are many hours conversation and some thought to be expended on this tragedy after the final curtain. It is a play of two people who have been so busy enjoying and acquiring things of the world that something of the spirit has died within them. They fall in love, are both unequal to its challenge. The girl dies, poisoned by her own incapacity; the man stands groping, helpless...
...considerable prompting from Senator Caraway of Arkansas, his twin wit, Mr. Harrison undertook to remind everyone how just such "radicals" as the present "progressives" had been "read out of G. O. P. ranks" three years ago (TIME, Dec. 8, 1924) and denied any Senate committee places at all. Now, behold, the "progressives" had been handsomely placed on the committee" -LaFollette on Commerce, Post Offices, Mines; Nye on Immigration, Territories, Commerce, Appropriations and the chairmanship of Public Lands; Frazier on Mines, Post Offices, Agriculture, Banking & Currency and the chairmanship of Indian Affairs; Blaine on Military Affairs, Civil Service, Judiciary...
...told, that the very members themselves do not know the members names. Out of pure gratitude be it said that all Yale was there in a body; in such numbers, in fact, that to cross the floor was a suicidal undertaking. Only at a Harvard party can one behold girls who are known to one's family shining in an atmosphere at once Rabelaisian and refined, overlooking the form and enjoying the substance of the spirit of revelry rampant...
...principle." Berthelot reasoned that all chemical phenomena followed physical laws. In his laboratory he treated glycerin with certain acids and got fats, oils and butters. He combined hydrogen and carbon by means of the voltaic arc and got acetylene. "Berthelot condenses it [acetylene] under the action of heat and behold, we have benzine," writes Premier Poincaré in the current Chimie et Industrie, French periodical. "He adds hydrogen and behold, there appears ethylene, which, united with water, will produce alcohol. He places it in contact with air and with an alkaline solution-and behold, acetic acid or vinegar...