Word: dourness
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...Regent, Admiral Horthy, were responsible for smashing Emperor Karl's pitiful attempt to come back in 1921. Last week Archduke Otto remained safely in his mouldy castle in a wood near Brussels, refused ail interviews. His mother, the Empress Zita, now a dour-faced widow, was in Paris at the bedside of her brother, Prince Sixtus of Bourbon-Parma, desperately ill with an infected heart. The body of Otto's father, the Emperor Karl, lay in a rusty vault on the island of Madeira under a heap of ancient wilted wreaths from European royalty. One thing the Dollfuss...
When Chris and her parson husband, Robert, went to the little town of Segget they found the inhabitants a dour, gnarled lot. Chris was a woman and a realist, not much of a churchwoman, but Robert was a fiery Christian who wanted to make the whole congregation over into decent folk. It took a lot to down him, but gradually he learned that Segget was there to stay. Then he had a vision and turned otherworldly. Chris liked him better in his old role. But when he got up from a sick bed to preach his last sermon she recognized...
...with less consideration. As in the "real" League, ushers were supplied to carry messages from national group to national group. Comely Radcliffe maidens, cleverly clad in white, which contrasted flatteringly with the dull winter garb of their visiting sisters, flitted constantly from contingent to contingent, often transporting billet dour or notes reading "Just to make use of the usher." So the League dispelled ennui...
...plotting, cloaks & swords, knife-faced Bothwell, caddish Darnley, crafty young Elizabeth, the snaggle-toothed pack of Scots Lords, he has made a poetic play. Designer Robert Edmond Jones has set it against six harsh, splendid sets. The first scene is of Mary's landing at Leith, a "cold, dour, villainous and dastardly" place. The second in England shows Elizabeth plotting to trick Mary into marrying Tudor-blooded Darnley, a Catholic, thus enraging the Protestant Lords and making it impossible for Mary ever to become Queen of Protestant England...
...Lawrence Langner. Guiterman has written neatly lyrical doggerels to be sung to songs based on old French folk-tunes and bergerettes. Able Dancers Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman and assistants give a parody turn and little inspiration to some 17th Cen-tury dances. Pictorially it is nearly perfect. But even dour-faced Osgood Perkins as the tyrannical Brother Sganarelle and childish-voiced June Walker as his ward who is advised to "serve his meals all dank and sultry, and in between commit adultery" cannot make much of Moliere's empty comedy of words and cardboard characterizations. Plot: June Walker...