Word: evils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...settings were not by Lee Simonson, the carousel tune was different and portly Dudley Digges was not Liliom's evil friend "Sparrow." Otherwise, the Repertory's Molnar revival was moment for moment the play of eleven years back. Actor Schildkraut, strutting, slapping the girls, blowing his nose with his hand, interprets the character of a sideshow barker who has nothing to be admired save an abiding arrogance which he carries with him up to and through the gates of perdition. Miss Le Gallienne, as the servant girl whom he lives with, beats and foolishly dies for, gives...
...EVIL THROUGH THE AGES-George S. Chappell-Stokes ($2). Solemnly humorous "Outline of Indecency...
...book there is no liberation for the evil, if such it be, of class literature. As permanent criticism the volume will last little longer than the sociological conditions it advocates for literary treatment...
...well fits his part. He brandishes whips, laughs horribly, almost corrupts Sts. Peter, Paul, James & John, almost makes Gabriel (a character strongly reminiscent of The Green Pastures' Gabriel) sound the Last Trump. Discovered in his wickedness, Satan is sent to hell by a microphonic Jehovah, there continues his evil doing. From this point on, 01' Man Satan wallows in confusion, terminates with the cast of 131 lifting their hands in thanksgiving, for what the audience cannot be quite sure...
...general election must come soon in England. Whether the outcome will fulfill Henderson's prophecies of evil for Labor is doubtful. In view of the general swing to the right, it is quite possible that the English people will decisively reject socialism as a panacea for its ills, in which case the defeated can console themselves with the assurance that their time will come...