Word: elizabeth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...because they are set in a heavily-contrasting background of English stodginess. It is like a refreshing cold shower to hear his crisp, incisive ideas, his ready slang, after a period of drawling "I say"'s, and "Don' cher know"'s. Ann Andrews, who plays the role of Lady Elizabeth Galton, an instantaneous magnet for "Willie"'s attentions, is a self-possessed, stately heroine. She is most attractive in the truly British, undemonstrative manner. Arthur Elliott does a rare piece of character acting as the tyrannical paternal head of the household, although at times his apoplectic anger seems a trifle...
...action moves swiftly throughout the entire play; to Miss Elizabeth Moffat much credit is due for awakening, in the first scene, the risibilities of the expectant audience. The butler, Donald Meek, was an admirable foil to the harrassed hero and featured an amusing scene portraying the economic emancipation of the modern servant...
...philosophic acceptance of a First Cause as inconscient as the telephone, and the strong inclination to say one's prayers; the faculty to cope with Kant and the childlike aptitude for faith; the sheepishness of the Shakespearean mask and the sublimity of the poet; the greatness of Queen Elizabeth and the pretentiousness of her virginity; the grace of Charles the Martyr and his unending folly; the greasy corpulence of Gautier and the perfection of his verse; the divine murmur of Verlaine and the cretin's mentality...
...Elizabeth Peabody House-F. M. Goldberg, G. C. Lee, H. K. Gross, M. Davis, T. Lang...
...Widener Room of the Widener Memorial Library there is now on view for a fortnight an interesting exhibit of first editions, manuscripts and autograph letters of Alfred Tennyson and Elizabeth and Robert Browning. Included in the Tennyson cases are an autograph copy of the first proof-sheets of "Gareth and Lynett," with many corrections by the poet, a first edition of the "Holy Grail," with 50 lines of original manuscript, a first edition of "Enoch Arden," and the original manuscript of "The charge of the Light Brigade...