Word: cowling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...turns back the pages of history. Time and space may be the loci of preheusions for Professor Whitehead, but they are nothing to the Vagabond when a fellow spirit calls. Back in 1342 in Germany lived a great man. He masqueraded as a solemn monk, peering from beneath his cowl with an impish grin. He told ribald jokes before embarrased burgers and their daughters in the Church, Square. He put frogs in the Papal Legate's bed. But his escapades led to the scaffold and Till Eulenspeigel danced for the last time, with his feet off the ground longer than...
Through the Years, Thirteen years ago Miss Jane Cowl wrote herself a play about an old gentleman whose beauteous bride had been murdered by a thwarted suitor on her wedding night. The old gentleman, growing testier with the years, finds that his niece is in love with the long-dead murderer's son. He almost breaks up this romance, but the War and his advanced age finally thaw his hatred. Thereupon, by a sort of reverse Peter Ibbetson arrangement, his deceased sweetheart comes down a moonbeam, to" take him away with...
...Miss Cowl called her play Smilin' Through, and there are those who still feel a sympathetic tear in their eye when they reflect on how dulcet was Miss Cowl in her dual role of both heroines, how pleasant was the treacly little theme song of that piece...
...behalf of Mr. Youmans, it may be argued that no composer could have breathed the breath of life into Miss Cowl's weepy drama...
...club. Although never before produced in this country, the play was presented in England where it enjoyed a very successful run at the Everyman's Theatre in Hampstead. Its author, Miss Temple, is comparatively unknown in America but has attained a considerable reputation in England where, like Jane Cowl, she frequently acts in her own plays...