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...fancy themselves as great tragic figures with a story. They begin to fumble artlessly with suicide, murder and passion in the tradition of the great dramatists. The actors' innocent prattle of art and souls off-stage and on becomes a ghoulish poison running through the unconscious town. The butcher inexpertly throws an axe at his wife. Jim Clancy jumps off the pier at low tide. It rains and rains. Finally the local member of the Dail Eireann, an odd character who looks part penguin, part shellfish (Ralph Cullinan), is moved by his recollection of a performance of Playwright Henrik...
...taunts of his fiancee send Rocky Thorne into the war and make a fiendish butcher out of an idealistic sculptor. (Don't worry, Dix is a sculptor for only a few minutes). Serious injury restores him to peaceful citizenship and she who taunted him finds happiness again in his arms, while planning for the acquisition of eight children. Elizabeth Allan is the feminine interest, or at least is intended to be, for again we have only the preview's word for it that there is any interest whatsoever in the picture. Miss Allan's face is squat, her acting...
Local Communists had announced that they would build a brick obelisk in Fraternity Park and place therein the ashes of one Julio Mella, a Red assassinated in 1929 allegedly by agents of Cuba's detested President Gerardo ("Butcher") Machado. If trouble should break out at the funeral it would give the Army a chance to shoot Reds. President Grau officially refused the Communists permission to build the obelisk, but the Army let Red bricklayers rush it to completion overnight...
...while which still have a few followers. Then came success with a series of popular plays, but he was rarely heralded by critics as the foremost dramatist until he reached the psycho-analytical period. Here he reached the peak with "Strange Interlude." Soldier, sailor, tinker, tailor, doctor, and butcher flocked to this intellectual play. Being intellectual was the fad of that period; you might surreptitiously go to see Clara Bow, but you were "passe" if you couldn't discuss your complexes and O'Neill intelligibly. Then came "Mourning Becomes Electra." The public tried to be classical and pronounce Oedipus...
...brief blooming, feels that it is good to be settled down. Admitting that he is wiser than he was, he says: "I can face the boy of 18 that I once was, without shame. I have gained the courage to love." Floyd Dell's father was a butcher in Illinois, but he lost his job and had to take what he could get. Floyd grew up in respectable but shaming poverty. The family moved restlessly, finally settled in Davenport, Iowa. Bright, delicate, sensitive Floyd was good at school, read everything he could lay hands on. He was soon calling...