Word: bridegrooms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Meanwhile, at Barwaha, the nuptials had been completed by the ceremony of withdrawing a veil from between the lovers, a fire ceremony, and a rite which consisted in winding around the bodies of the bride and bridegroom a single symbolic, yellow cord. Lastly, the wedded couple descended from their marriage pavilion into the open and called to witness that they are man and wife some 500 wedding guests and the Stars, Moon...
...while the best women of the older writer are young things, the best women of George Kelly are unmarried (even Craig's wife was not mentally married) and are yet at that fascinating turn in the road known as la femme de trente ans. Tony, heroine of "Behold, the Bridegroom", is twenty-seven, and the jacket calls her "a burnt candle...
...survive the completely hopeless first act or arrive happily late. "Behold the Bridegroom" is a good evening's investment. The rough points are hard to stomach, but there may quite possibly be the fundamentals of a great play in the rest...
...Behold the Bridegroom" can't quite be laughed off, much as one may feel the urge. From pure politeness appropriate in a non-paying guest, this reviewer suppressed a nearly uncontrollable desire to hoot, jeer and shout "ham" during one of the worst first acts in memory. Then for no apparent reason Mr. George Kelly began to make sense through the mouths of a competent, but sorely taxed cast. The final impression was more than ordinarily disturbing. Here was a play, like it or not, and in its worst moments it brought to mind the old sentiment, "I wouldn...
Other well regarded serious plays are: ESCAPE, CAPONSACCHI; Civic Repertory Theatre Productions; BEHOLD, THE BRIDEGROOM...