Word: gabriels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Other plays produced this season by this organization: Chekhov's The Three Sisters (TIME, Nov. 8), Benavente's Saturday Night (TIME, Nov. 15), Ibsen's The Master Builder (TIME, Nov. 15), Ibsen's John Gabriel Borkman (TIME, Nov. 29). Prices range from 50 cents...
...nearby peaks of the Whitney group bear mostly the names of geologists, explorers, and other men of science (Whitney, Langley, Muir, Hitchcock, Guyot, Russell, Leconte, Tyndall, etc.), while our great peaks in southern California have "saint" names, (San Antonio, San Gorgonio, San Jacinto, San Gabriel, etc.)--Anglo-Saxon and Spanish contrasted, or science and religion, if you like. However, we have a Devil's Punch-bowl across the range from Pasadena...
...John Gabriel Borkman is a trag-edy of a Napoleon of finance who waited vainly for the world to come to his Elba in a garret, who finally stamped forth rashly to regain love and the world when it was too late. The little pauses between lines, the way an actor paces the room, the tempo of dialogue and movement, make all the difference in play production. To this work of Playwright Ibsen's old age, Miss Le Gallienne has given more careful direction than she has to previous offerings of her Civic Repertory Theatre. Egon Brecher...
Daily he works with his U. S. translator over the English text of his Civilization. Occasionally he entertains his brothers Paul and Albert, his daughters, the Mmes. Jacquemaire and Young. More typically he sits out long evenings with his old friend M. Andre Pierre Gabriel Amedee Tardieu...
...soon hopeless spinsters, Abyssinian slaves, beggars and poor cousins of Mohammed leaked it out that his vigils were to confer with the angel Gabriel, who was repeatedly confiding that of the sundry gods then worshiped in Arabia, Allah was the only god and he, Mohammed, was His rasul (prophet). The powerful Koreish clan in Mecca scowled. Mohammed's friends, now dubbed Moslems (traitors) found it best to keep his revelations secret. It was four years before their number was great enough for him to broach his mission openly in Mecca...