Word: dumbing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dumb Show. In the great dark vault of a cathedral on the Rhine stands a wonder-working image of the Virgin. A thousand candle flames flicker, their brilliance reflected in the gorgeous windows, in the golden vessels of the holy service. Worshippers come in throngs to pray, pale-faced nuns do their devotions and priests perform the sacred ritual under a mantle of incense and church music...
...cast is composed almost entirely of veterans from last year, among them C. H. Morgan 2G., who will play his accustomed feminine role, the blase collegienne. L. W. Grossman '26, one of the general managers of the show, will play the comedian in the character of Nooky, Cecil's dumb reporter husband. The romance of the play will be furnished by Dwight Barnum '27 and R. H. Booth '27, as Forsythia and EdWard respectively...
...They must think I'm a bird. It's my feet, my mouth, and my eradi- cation they want. Some of them call me a dumbbell. They will soon find out how dumb...
...tired of all the efforts to make this the last resting place for the dumb but brawny boys...
...prospector's daughter. Successively, in unreasoning passion, he kills the first two and takes the last for his mate. The power of the book, the excuse for it, is that the author, once a sheepherder, treats the protagonist as he treats the beasts in the story, as a dumb brute suffering without understanding. It is not a comedy, and unlike the Scandinavian treatment of such a theme it is not stark tragedy. It is simply a wild-animal tale, effectively told...