Word: eye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mind of many a famous man lurks the question of what figure he will cut in History. That was the concern of the last bitter years of Napoleon; it worried vain Frederick the Great; it troubled Lincoln. Franklin Roosevelt, who has long had an eye on his own place in history, last week made plans to occupy...
Here Come the Clowns (by Philip Barry; produced by Eddie Dowling) is not, as the title suggests, a lighthearted comedy, but the bitter, twisted story of a modern Job. Sceneshifter Dan Clancy (Eddie Dowling) has been blinded in one eye, has lost his home, his job, his child, and been deserted by his wife. Literally searching for God to find an answer to his sufferings, he stumbles on a group of vaudevillians in a speakeasy. One of them has the sinister talent of worming the truth out of people, and drags from a dwarf and a ventriloquist their tragic, bleeding...
...most thoroughly puzzled and stimulated theatre-goers with his mystical play, Hotel Universe, in its intentions something of a precursor to Here Come the Clowns. Two contradictory kinds of talent are apt to keep Barry from ever becoming a cut-to-measure playwright : on the one hand, a keen eye for manners, a suave wit, a gift for fresh, pointed dialogue; on the other, a restless imagination, great moral heat, a feeling for below-the-surface tragedy...
...thing actually to see something; and it is quite another thing to read and then see it, since there is bound to be a difference in the two pictures which meet the eye. For instance, read a novel, say Hardy's "Return of the Native"--with which almost every student comes in contact sooner or later. As you read, you see the picture of the land through Hardy's words, but you build up a picture of your own with your mental eye. Thus, when he describes the opening scene: "A Saturday afternoon in November was approaching the time...
...central Chinese Government, not another venal gang of mere puppets, such as those already established at Peking and Nanking, but a State headed by the Scholar Marshal, famed Wu Pei-fu. Marshal Wu had a long and brilliant military career under the Manchu Dynasty, thus might see eye-to-eye with a Japanese scheme to restore as Emperor of China the deposed Kang Teh, now puppet Emperor of Manchukuo...