Word: evils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...murky evening, a young lady is walking unescorted through a city street when an evil-looking Negro buck darts toward her, slugs her over the head with a rock, seizes her purse, darts away. Up to the curb glides a La Salle limousine. Out of it steps a gentleman in full evening dress and top hat. With a few nimble bounds, he overtakes the fleeing Negro, pinions him fast. Then from his pocket the gentleman whips a gleaming pen knife. Deftly he slits the Negro's throat from ear to ear. Returning to the young woman...
When the curtain goes up at 8.30 o'clock tonight at Brattle Hall on the Welsh kitchen interior of Richard Hughes play "A Comedy of Good and Evil," it will mark both its American premier and the fiftieth production of the Harvard Dramatic Club...
...will play the part of the Welsh clergyman, John Williams, while Miss Miriam Hurwitt will act the role of his wife, Minnie. A genuine wooden peg leg will form part of Miss Hurwitt's costume. Miss Lois Hall, dressed in girlish white, will appear as Gladys, the refined young evil spirit of the piece...
There is a great to do about a leg in the "Comedy of Good and Evil" at Brattle Hall tonight. Miriam Hurwitt, who gets a new leg, is greatly perturbed when it flies up unceremoniously into the faces of the visitors to her humble dwelling. And perturbation is scarcely a fitting word for the reactions of the unfortunate visitors...
...faith in the force of evil. She glories in her struggle against the overwhelming odds on the other side. In fact, her arguments are so convincing, her faith so positive, her struggle against the insidious forces of good so sincere, that she casts a doubt into the solid mind of the good rector. It has never occurred to him before that it is so possible for the positive good and the negative evil to be reversed. Szathmary is great as the sorely perplexed churchman...