Word: caesarism
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...cowboy costumes, worrying, ringing bells, riding horseback forward and backward, crawling on all fours and swinging from the limbs of trees. Naturally, in a picture which contains the Ritzes, there is very little room left for a story. In Straight, Place and Show, Damon Runyon's and Irving Caesar's fairly conventional fable about a young man (Richard Arlen), a young girl (Phyllis Brooks) and an eccentric race horse survives principally as the excuse for two songs by Ethel Merman and a steeplechase climax which, faintly reminiscent of The Hottentot (1920), is one of the most suspenseful...
Stanford. Admirers compared Leland Stanford with Napoleon, Caesar, Alexander the Great and John Stuart Mill, but Partner Collis Huntington described him tersely as "a damned old fool." His profound thought before he answered a question made people look upon him as a thinker, until they discovered that it took him as long to answer a simple question as a difficult one. Governor of California when the Central Pacific was started, Stanford loved the limelight as much as Huntington hated it, loved display, testimonials, speeches, luxury, built so many homes and farms that his vast estate was finally in danger...
...UNTO CAESAR-F. A. Voigt-Putnam ($3). A long, weary argument by the Foreign Editor of the Manchester Guardian, urging Britain to rearm, for the end of the world is at hand...
...Mercury Theatre, which first made headlines with Julius Caesar, the season's most exciting stunt, and thereafter stayed continuously on the front page with The Cradle Will Rock, the season's most original form of entertainment; The Shoemakers' Holiday, the season's most rollicking revival; Heartbreak House, the season's most difficult play to revive. Synonymous with the Mercury Theatre was Actor-Director Orson Welles...
...sceneryless stage, which for a while scared stage designers as a nudist epidemic would scare dressmakers. It fully justified itself by making Julius Caesar timeless in its meaning, by giving Our Town the universality of Everytown...