Word: faces
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Here is the big scene. You have been waiting for Major Powell to face his old servant after sleeping with his wife but, using the one-two punch that can be as effective in a play as in a prize-ring, Author Rideout does more than answer his suspense. The prancing Senegalese is a faithful friend to Israel Dubois; seeing that his friend and the officer have bad blood between them, he starts for the Major with his knife, and Israel Dubois, who has drawn gun to shoot his white master, feels the tug of an ancient loyalty and kills...
...people that work for him, by showing them how their jobs ought to be done. If on such occasions he did their work clumsily, it might make him popular. He does it well and then, with an obtuseness common to most intelligent and sensitive persons, forgets to apologize. His face is likely to be covered with short bristles, a condition which, as he is doubtless aware, teases and annoys. Jed Harris edits and attends to the details of producing plays with a strange, irritable, creative fervor, so that you might think he had written them. Because he has picked four...
...most potent brothers never seem to get left very far behind. While Harris and White and The Guild, all comparatively new competitors, leap ahead with inspiration, the Shuberts gallop steadily along, always good-natured and always ready to accept the new thing without growls and murmurs. Their faces have none of the melancholy which distinguishes that of A. H. Woods. A Shubert's face is always cheerful, his eyes are bright, his clothes old-fashioned but snappy. The theatre is to the Shuberts a melodious grocery store in which they labor with perfect equanimity, knowing their business well...
...slap in the face or other physical insult will occasionally stop a hysteric fit. But such are dangerous to many victims. Their hysteria is too deeply ground in character, in brain, in nerves. The deep hysteric may pretend practically every disease, every deformity known to medicine. Some women want children so badly that they actually become bloated. The stigmata frequently reported seen on religious exaltes are hysteric in origin. If the hysteric's malingering continues long the simulated infirmity may cause actual disease. Only the wiliest of doctors can discern the hysteric's true state. And only...
...rooms on all floors, 4 picture galleries including the best and worst art of all periods. Within this pretentious tomb, Miner Clark lived quietly with his wife and children. He became a familiar figure in Manhattan, strutting down Fifth Avenue, his white hair waving wildly in the wind, his face hidden by fluffy, square beard and flourishing moustache...