Word: cloaks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ancient and honorable theme of a modern family living under the posthumous influence of a remote ancestor is again employed in "Spring Again," though this time under a cloak of humorous dialogue. The plot revolves about the long-suffering Nell Carter, played by Grace George, and her sullen rebellion against her father-in-law, General Carter of Civil War fame, who has influenced her life ever since her marriage to his devoted and admiring son, Halstead Carter. Complications set in when Nell proceeds to air what she knows of the General's private life in a radio skit entitled...
Judge William J. Campbell set January 22 for the electrocution of the men, who like their wives, he said, "deliberately and in secret, under the cloak of American citizenship, as agents and helpers of the saboteur, schemed and connived to destroy their neighbors and this nation...
...only woman opera impresario in the world last week launched the freshest, most bumptious U.S. opera troupe on its second Manhattan season. The impresario is Hungarian-born Yolanda Mero-lrion of the youthful New Opera Company. For openers, Impresario Irion chose The Opera Cloak, Walter Damrosch's latest one-acter, and The Fair at Sorochinsk, a rollicking opus by Russia's rum-nosed Immortal, Modeste Moussorgsky. Eighty-year-old Composer Damrosch conducted his curtain raiser without drowning out the audience's spirited conversation. But for The Fair at Sorochinsk, they sat up, shut up and pounded their...
...Lloyd mastered the trick. The Robe (Christ's cloak) is a story of the past in modern dress. It describes the conversion to Christianity and martyr's death of Tribune Marcellus Gallic (the Roman who carried out Pilate's order to crucify Jesus) and the life of Marcellus' faithful Greek slave and bodyguard Demetrius. The setting is chiefly Rome, Palestine, Capri...
...decided at first that it would be easier to slip from corner to corner, to steal a jacket from a gardener's shed, a cloak from a blind man, to lie hidden in a nearby cathedral "under the eyes of six arch-chancellors of the Holy Roman Empire...