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Capable Playwright Crothers has cross-stitched her problem drama with pure comedy. Brightest moments of the play occur when Mary's rich, flibberty-gibbet friend Bridget (Spring Byington) is permitted to loosen her tactless but well-meaning tongue. "I know how you feel, Mary," she says consolingly. "It used to make me feel so badly when my husband went off and left me. I didn't feel half so sad when he died. I knew where...
...this point, with the Opposition created, all seemed ripe for the crisis, but canny Fethi Bey decided to play super-safe. Not wishing to wake up some morning on a gibbet by mistake, the Leader of the Opposition harangued Parliament, proposed that the Deputies elect Mustafa Kemal Pasha-"our Glorious Ghazi, our Victorious One"-to be president of Turkey for life. (His second four-year term expires...
...still lives there, is one of the sights of the Pombo Café. He carries seven fountain pens filled with red ink. His apartment contains : a street lamp, acquired legally from Madrid's Consolidated Gas Co., a beautiful wax mannequin en deshabille, a life-size skeleton, a gibbet from which hangs the King of Bulgaria. Famed orator, he once made a speech from a trapeze (at the Circo Madrileño), from an elephant (at the Cirque d'Hiver in Paris). Says Critic Waldo Frank: "His true fellow is Marcel Proust. . . . Ramon also weaves the filmy spell...
...made a law. The next Quaker to land would get one ear lopped off. If he came back, off with the other ear! If yet again he returned, his tongue was to be pierced by a red-hot iron. These provisions failing, however, to deter the Quakers, presently the gibbet was invoked and four Quakers were hanged, one of them a woman...
...Orleans. Always he pursued women, stole at a whim, strained at a bottomless tankard. And always he was freed from the dungeons (often by the services of the influential priest whom he called "my more than father"). Back in Paris, at the age of 31, he faced the gibbet of Montfaucon for a second time, was again liberated, sentenced to ten years' exile. With a farewell to his impoverished mother, whom he continually tried to comfort, he vanished from the city and from history...