Word: fanaticism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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HELL-BENT PER HEAVEN-A modern realistic version of Tartuffe, with a southern religious fanatic working evil in the name of good, assisted by a cinema-esque flood.
Premier. There follows an outline of the life history of a man who, once a country yokel, has risen to be Prime Minister of Britain. Born in the village of Lossiemouth in 1866; under the influence of village school teacher renounced manual labor and became a student; at 19 years...
Miss Bushnell alone seems to be fully aware of the dramatic possibilities of the play; as usual, her characterization is sincere and appealing. The rest of the players, except Mr. Darney have rather inconsequential parts, which they take well enough. Mr. Darney, of course, is the villain; supposedly he is...
1915]. On the one hand the placid, prudent, elderly English gentleman [Lieutenant General Sir Frederick Stopford] with his 20,000 men spread around the beaches, the front lines sitting on the tops of shallow trenches, smoking and cooking, with here and there an occasional rifle shot, others bathing by hundreds...
Just why New Yorkers have failed to recognize this place of satire on fanatic reform as such is a mystery. With one exception they seem to have been taken in. The sole septic states with utmost gravity that he cannot and the address, of "Mr. Fillmore's" society in the...