Search Details

Word: clare (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...watering the sensitive plant, which blushes, warming the matchhead, which ignites, inspiring the cat to commit suicide. In this case a high-grade bellboy might have been able to name the handsome patron: Cartoonist Rube Goldberg. The desk clerk could probably have named Mr. Goldberg's companions: Cartoonists Clare Briggs and Bud Fisher. . . . The first formal and annual dinner of the Cartoonists of America was a large event in a circle where events are not numerous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Wows | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

...Clare Briggs uses a No. 170 pen, scorns to end his strips with "plop" or "bam," loves circuses, attended the University of Nebraska. "The Days of Real Sport" are his own never-finished childhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Wows | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

...Guild, West 52nd St.,--As Jacques Copeau, one of the greatest directors of which the present day theatre can boast, has directed this, his own version, of the Dostoevsky play, it can't help being good. Clare Eames and Alfred Lunt see to it that Copeau is not slighted on the acting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 1/26/1927 | See Source »

...tionalization of the beastly Karamazov nature, whereupon his tower of reason topples into madness. With two love stories, these three threads are woven into an intricate stage pattern, directed by Jacques Copeau, who came to the U. S. for that special purpose, enacted by a cast including Alfred Lunt, Clare Eames, Lynn Fontanne, Dudley Digges, George Gaul, Edward Robinson. It will alternate weekly with Pygmalion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Jan. 17, 1927 | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

...McCobb's Daughter, Carrie, is played by Clare Eames, slim, high-voltage onetime Lady Macbeth in the late James K. Hackett's Shakespearian swashbuckling (crowned by France). Sidney Howard, who knew what they wanted, provides her and the Theatre Guild with an effective Down East chariot, brought up to date with a bootleg plot. Carrie's no-account spouse has committed the indiscretion of appropriating $2,000 in Kennebec ferry fares. Babe, a genial-villainous, gold-toothed brother-in-law from Manhattan lends the sum-when allowed to use the family barn for liquor storage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Dec. 13, 1926 | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

Previous | 185 | 186 | 187 | 188 | 189 | 190 | 191 | 192 | 193 | 194 | 195 | 196 | 197 | 198 | 199 | 200 | 201 | 202 | 203 | 204 | 205 | Next