Word: cats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After writing enthusiastic reviews of those two excellent productions, "Loyalties", and the "Chauve-Souris", the Playgoer looked around for some unfortunate drama on which he might sharpen his teeth and whet his claws. With this malign purpose in mind. "The Cat and the Canary" was about the worst choice he could have made. But before going on, it must be thoroughly understood that household pets have nothing to do with this show: any animal lover who goes to see his favorites perform is certain to be surprised, although hardly disappointed...
...case of "The Bat", everyone who has seen "The Cat and the Canary" has to conspire to keep the cat in the bag, so the action must remain an impenetrable secret, so far as the Playgoer is concerned. But its effectiveness, judged by that reliable criterion, its reception by the audience, deserves no little admiration. By means of thoroughly adequate scenery and "props", and the services of the old West Indian, "Mammy" Pleasant, an extremely advantageous current of excitement and hysteria is set up, which needs only the slamming of a door or the tolling of a bell to produce...
Accordingly they rushed to the address and were met by an indignant landlady who announced that she had found the animal a week ago Sunday teasing her cat in the back yard. In the mean time he had torn up a $25 pocketbook, a linoleum rug, and had slept in the puffed rice. The board she said would...
When interviewed for the CRIMSON yesterday Kinney was too busy scratching to make any definite statements but implied that the does did not come from the cat and flew into a rage when the name of his recent landlady was mentioned...
Crown Prosecutor R. B. Graham of Winnipeg advocated " a spanking machine, which would have instruments varying from a broad paddle to a cat-of-nine-tails and so geared as to be administered with different degrees of severity ... to take the place of jail sentences for first offenders under the Criminal Code...