Word: gazing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Alloy. Through the fourth wall of a miserable millworker's hut in a steel town the audience is permitted to gaze at one of the most sordidly natural tragedies now open for inspection. It is a man-and-wife tragedy. The man is a drunkard and a beast. The woman is driven into the protecting arms of the family boarder. Vigorously written and vividly performed by Minna Gombell, the part of the girl carries the evening's interest. The saccharine platitudes and copybook virtue of the boarder (Ivan Miller), take the edge off the climax. If he were an individual...
Greece is the country, par excellence where ministries and dynasties alternate with astonishing rapidity. Almost the only way to tell at a given moment what form of government and what ruler are in power is to gaze into the swirling crystal, for the present is almost as uncertain as the future...
Comedienne. Somewhere in France this little portrait was first found. Presumably in some French theatre it amused the crowds that came to gaze. In importation all its glitter died away. It is the tale of an actress who became a grandmother and retired to Virginia. By the last act she is back at the stage door. Charlotte Walker was immoderately miscast in the part. Cyril Keightley did very little as head man. Alan Dale-"Sheer inadequacy and torture...
...chanced to step on the soil of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and gaze upon Washington University's eight had any doubt about their winning the 37th annual Poughkeepsie Regatta on the Hudson River. These lads from the West averaged six feet two inches in height and when they pulled their oars the thin sliver of a boat sped through the water with the proverbial speed of greased lightning...
...telling that makes this novel unique. In oddly blurred, yet impossibly vivid, shimmering sentences, this rich ambling becomes an absorbing tale. In what its author calls "a romance of bad manners," he has sketched those nebulous days just after the Civil war, for our contemporary gaze...