Word: charioteer
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...Andre Chariot's Revue of 1924. There is one insurmountable advantage which English musical comedians and comediennes have over their American prototypes. They are all somehow bred to the idea that they are to marry royalty; they act the part. Conversely, there is an equal advantage our own players have over the English. American comedians, ingenues and prima donnas generally originate in the carefree substrata of society. They retain a certain impudent irresistible gaminerie...
...Have you ever wondered how Nero looked when, purple toga folded about him, he strode from his chariot to the imperial box to give the signal for the Coliseum games to commence ? " I can tell you across the 19 centuries that are but minutes on the calendar of the Almighty, the heritage of Latin blood has not been lost from the Italian loins that sired him and from the Andalusian breasts that he suckled "- What magnificent figure is about to stride across the printed page? For whose entry was this tremendous barrage of rhetoric laid down ? A Mussolini...
...therefore, the Piece seemed unreal and consequently unsatisfactory, the fault lies with those old masters, Racine and Corneille, who so effectively bound the drama of their native land to the chariot-wheels of Convention. Indeed, most of the contemporary French work which filters through to this country shows that lack of spontaneity which results from adapting life to the stage and not the stage to life. Nor are Kistmaecker and the adaptor--Paul Kester--any exceptions to the rule: for while the dialogue is occasionally interesting, the plot is hopelessly stereotyped. Thus such lines as, "Pan--that gay little goatlegged...
Down across the broad fields of by-ways of our land, on through main traveled roads and the busy thoroughfares of cities, drives the heavy chariot of Mars, his sleek black horses caparisoned with shining armor. As he sounds his silver bugle, thousands of fair youths heed its call, and trudge bravely forth to do his bidding. From shop and home they come, from the canons of great cities, from the gray cloisters of the universities, all march behind the great van of the tyrant, all with high ideals and hearts undisturbed by the grim realities around them. For theirs...
...imagery-and is not without the grace, fluency and terseness that make for success in the highly artificial form he has chosen. It has clearly lyric quality. "The Racing Blood" of Mr. Husband opens most promisingly. The first two stanzas' description of the Greek foot-race and the Roman chariot race are full of speed, vigor and physical exhilaration; but the third stanza which attempted to trace the same racing instinct in the automobile race, and to give a moral twist to the whole is a woful breakdown. It is hardly believable that the man who composed the spirited opening...