Word: gaul
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...parents of William Gaul, 6, wrapped a handkerchief soaked in rainwater from the grave around his neck. Doctors at Boston City Hospital said they noted a sudden improvement in his throat trouble...
Faust (George Gaul) was seen early in the evening, moaning his discontent. Though often he voiced the assurance that he was thinking profound thoughts, his bombastic manner of doing so made you think he was lying. His intellectual hauteur had grown somewhat to resemble Gene Tunney's when finally the devil appeared with promises of pleasure. In the first moment of action on the stage and one in which for an instant the enchantments of the underworld seemed real, Faust wrapped his cloak around him and flew with his companion through the dark air in search of gaudy cities...
...heroine is a mid-western lass who hungers for romance and esthetics. In Venice she tumbles for an insolvent Frenchman whose family dates back to Charlemagne, who would innately prefer Santa Maria della Salute to the First Methodist. Her rubber-company father, distressed, arranges to remove the cultured Gaul to Ohio, hoping Daughter will be disillusioned by his Old World fragrance among robustuous U. S. odors. Chameleon Pierre turns Babbitt, nearly estranges the girl while ingratiating himself with her father, ultimately wins her with a recrudescence of Gallic passion when his success is dramatically jeopardized by an American rival...
...Caesar, Mr. Thaddeus presents the following picture: "Sword in one hand, the incendiary torch in the other, he strides across Gaul, his thin-lipped mouth twisted into a smile as the eagles of his legions scream false promises to the natives.... But legend has chosen to whitewash the tawdry walls of Rome, so that it is Caesar, the far seeing statesman, rather than Caesar the bandit-adventurer, who is in the habit of stepping forward immaculate to take curtain calls as one of history's heroes and supermen...
...Headed by George Gaul and Florence Eldridge in The Guardsman, Mr. Pirn Passes...