Word: en
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French Paramount Players do themselves justice in this film. Liane is effectively portraited by Edith Mira, who appeared in "Les Trois Mousquetaires"; Rosine, secretary to Liane, is charmingly interpreted by Susy Vernon; and Constant Remy is convincing in the role of Santerre, the melleur en scene. The action never lags, and the technique of introducing brief interludes of comment from the outside world is employed with restraint...
...Grand Street, where the "carriage trade" rolled smartly up to its doors. When the President-elect visited the city in 1861, the World reported: "A large bow window at Lord & Taylor's well-known establishment was entirely filled with ladies. ... As Mr. Lincoln was passing they rose en masse, waved their cambric welcome and gave utterance to as hearty cheers as are often heard from a broader-chested and stronger-lunged people...
...Manuel Quezon operated by H. H. Young Oct. 26. Patient en route operating room was very good spirits joking with intimate friends. Spinal anesthesia with novocaine was used also oxygen inhalation by mask. Although fully conscious throughout operation, Quezon stood same excellently, talking at times with surgeon, physicians regarding progress operation. Half hour before a good dose morphine was injected yet he seemed unaffected stating he fully conscious. Quezon had insistently requested be placed under general anesthesia order be fully unconscious. This, however, not granted for his own good as it was pre-arranged use only local anesthetic order avoid...
...Sing them silent, dance them still and laugh them into an open shame!'' cries The Dreamer. And the Old Woman scorns the impotent Bishop's sister in words that might have come from James Joyce : "Salaam, mem pukka memsahib. en' pardon her, en' pardon me, en' pardon us all for getting in the way of thy greatness; en' grant us grace to have faith in thy dignity en' importance, per benedicte pax hugger muggery ora pro puggery rigmarolum...
...became interested in the theatre through a group of amateurs. "Everyone was getting tired of the Abbey plays," says he. "so I decided to write one for them." The amateurs as well as the Abbey turned the play down, but William Butler Yeats wrote an en couraging letter. O'Casey wrote two more, Harvest Festival and The Crimson in the Tri-Color. The latter was set down on paper a friend stole for the poverty-stricken playwright from a printing plant. These, too, failed to make the Abbey. But his next, The Shadow of a Gunman, did. World fame...