Word: grand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Back on the farm the former grand opera star will never sing again even for her own pleasure or to call the cows home to be milked as the evening sun goes down behind the Kansas hills. Perhaps the twenty-two year old prima donna never enjoyed singing anyhow. It may well have been the lure of the splendor of grand opera costumes that brought the soprano to New York in 1926 at the head of an army of enthusiastic supporters. Suspicions of this nature are strengthened when one recalls that in the statement to the press there...
...grand triumph, George Weller, internationally known playwright has out-done all his previous efforts. His latest and greatest work, the climax of a happy life is now being performed at the Hasty Pudding. It is an adaptation of the "Electra" of Sophocles, renamed for brevity's sake "Fireman, Save My Child". From the opening curtain to the last bow of smiling actor grim tragedy stalks the scene, tears flow and countless lumps rise in an equally indefinite number of throats. This is all the more remarkable as the adaptation is in reality meant to be a comedy...
Last October the federal grand jury in Florida returned a secret indictment against Congressman Michaelson, charging him with illegally importing "six quarts of John Haig whiskey, two quarts of creme de menthe liquor, one quart of taffel Akavait, one quart of creme de cacao, one quart of cherry brandy and one keg of plum Barbaucourt." In November, Congressman Michaelson was elected to the House for the fifth time. Last February he voted for the Five & Ten (Jones) Law as commanded by the Anti-Saloon League. Last week a warrant was out for his arrest on the Florida indictment. Bond...
Actress Anglin's discreet linking of voice and gesture is in the grand tradition of acting, a rare delight in the modern theatre. But Playwright Esme Wynne-Tyson's gusts of passion are too like the winds of old melodrama. They proceed from an artificial churning contraption...
...musical comedies are exceptionally entertaining this season, offering a wide variety of material. "Follow Thru" is perhaps the best, a grand show with no outstanding stars but talented performers, good music and an uproariously funny scene in a girl's locker room, adorned with chorus girls in little enough underclothing. Undress is also the basis for a chaste pageant in Ziegfeld's "Whoopee", which has good music as well and the antics of Eddie Cantor. "Spring Is Here" initiating Glenn Hunter into musical comedy is for connoisseurs the brightest and most engaging of this type of attraction though "Hold Everything...