Word: fulle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yorkers; they love to give hands to big dollar men. But the worm may turn, the native of the Michigan metropolis may show them that Detroit's income tax figures are not her only boast; the census substantiates-their claim of being city folks. And while they are in full possession of the art of making dollars, neither have they quite forgotten the art of keeping them...
...save the mark--of Maeterlinck. It is probably in the manner of its telling that the reason can be found for the strangely unsatisfying quality of the play. Undeniably it is written badly. There are moments when Mr. Connelly's genius for portraying the 'homus Americanus' is allowed full sway, and what takes place behind the footlights then becomes amusing and interesting. But when he ventures into the land of elves and gnomes and a forgotten boyhood, Connelly so patently lacks grace and deftness that the result is heavy-handed beyond words. Once or twice he revives sufficiently to shake...
...reading of the papal decree, proclaiming these martyrs blessed, fell appropriately to Mgr. Gromier, French Prelate, and preceded the pontifical mass. Then his Holiness, Pius XI, in snowy white, seated in the sedia gestatoria (sanctified chair) and escorted by twenty cardinals in scarlet, was borne through enormous crowds-full diplomatic corps and all other distinguished Rome-to the basilica, to venerate the newly canonized. Incense rose, heads bowed, throngs cheered...
...Diaries full of Rabelaisian details...
...Frances Norcross to impersonate abducted actress Daphne Dix. Frances' sweetheart, the press, Daphne's husband, are all very much befuddled, to the moderate glee of the audience. Eventually everything clears up, leaving Frances and her fiance the stronger against matrimonial bugaboos by $1,000. Tully Marshall, mouth full of popcorn, represents the press...