Word: bog
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Good Time Charley, after the fashion of the major portion of the season's spoken drama, features the play behind the scenes, the tear behind the smile. Warner Oland, as a woebegone clown, picks his way carefully and with success through the pathos that at times threatens to bog the story. In the supporting cast, Helene Costello supplies decoration, Montague Love villainy and Clyde Cook a fine performance in a minor role...
Soon Liechtenstein's 65 square miles of territory were converted into one gigantic bog, tops of houses and church spires, with an occasional oasis of high ground, lifting above the sea of mud. Frantic peasants drove their cattle as best they could toward the high mounds of land; boatmen plied their oars with aching muscles as they ferried women and children from their submerged houses to those still standing above the flood. Many people were forced to spend two days on their house tops...
...bird that gave Cyrano his white plume and that they are not much less pathetic for being so much more absurd. The audience wished only for something to happen to this charming old rogue to spur him out of what promised in the first two acts to be a bog of dialog. Baby Cyclone. Playwright George M. Cohan is an authority on husbands & wives. In his newest farce, he sets down that "whereas a woman has a whole bagful of tricks, a man has only one-the hat trick." This trick consists in the man's donning...
...soup and sauerkraut in the same performance. There is, first of all, a dancer, Harriet Hoctor, who, as a fairy doll, breezes across the stage like melody and floats away on a fancy that all the rest of mankind is clopping through life with one foot in a mud bog. George Kelly, who is perhaps the most deadly propagandist among U. S. playwrights, provided sketches which, artfully unclimactic, bore the audience into fierce exasperation by faithfully recording the yapping on the veranda of a summer hotel, a golf course, a theatrical dressing-room. These are food enough for entertainment...
...president of the United States does not have such a bad time. In has a secretary to write his thanks for the gifts his loving constituents pour in upon him--the first jam from God's cranberry bog, wolf cubs, apple pie, sombreros. His parental cares are lightened by a secret service man who follows his undergraduate son from class to class and within the past few months the "official spokesman" has relieved the president of another responsibility. But he still has to shake hands, and he does it well. Last week he disposed of 1400 lady Republicans in forty...