Word: ending
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...then had to roll himself about in a wheel chair while his erstwhile love cuddled another boy. In the meantime a profound and troublous scene has occurred. Avoiding the acute battlefront description of such books as All Quiet on the Western Front, such plays as Journey's End, Playwright O'Casey reveals a group of infantrymen encamped in a ruined apse behind the lines. There they sing songs of war-not bawdy ditties or rousing marches, but strange and awesome chants. This lyricism, now solo, now antiphonal, now choral, is a poetic, formalized utterance. The diction is abominable...
...Week End. Austin Parker, Saturday Evening Post writer, conceived this first offering of Bela Blau, Inc., prosperous and principled new producers (TIME, May 13). Among his characters he included a drunkard who, as played with strange understanding by Hugh O'Connell, is one of the season's great. Inebriates are of course familiar to the stage, but the antics of most of them seem like distorted mummery beside Mr. O'Connell's gentle and imaginative euphoria. As a chubby, post-War wastrel at a houseparty in Barbizon (just outside Paris) he may be found continuing...
Tenderhearted, King Mihai, doubtless approved the end of the story, when King Gleamlet breaks down, sobs aloud in Polish pity, and orders: "Release that unhappy creature [rat] and feed his family...
...SICKEL Left End...
...NOLAN Right End...