Word: griefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brother. Mariella's husband is smug and blind, but David's wife Judy (Adrianne Allen) sees clearly. Because she likes Mariella, because she loves David and is grateful to him for marrying her, Judy steps under the falling side of a burning barn. Almost mad with resentment, grief and frustration, David strikes crashing discords on the piano, breaks plates. It is Mariella who persuades him that Judy intended her sacrifice to remove, not to create, a barrier...
...other moving scene comes four days later, when Stella, dazed by her grief, starts out of the Surrege's drawing room toward the lake to do what she thinks is the only thing left for her to do. Her wise compassionate aunt (Blanche Bates) stops her at the door. They have a conversation from which Stella derives comfort, if not consolation. As the play ends, Stella is again going through the door toward the lake...
...room mate. Or what shall I buy the boy friend (or girl-friend)? That blank moment when you would just as soon jump into the next river as look at another gift shop. Along with a few of our editorial aides, we have taken all of the grief out of this year's Christmas buying with a finely chosen (we were going to say something about a fine-toothed comb, but who ever heard of combing a book?) list of comes from which you may select one for your best professor on your worst class mate. So here goes...
...more resembles a desiccated prune. The other fracas which cropped up recently was the neat assassination of King Nadir Shah of the Afghans at Kabul, the capital of that peculiar nation. Though in natural sympathy with all monarchs who leave their thrones in such precipitous manner, one's grief is slightly lessened for this great soul by the recollection that it was Nadir who rid himself of the obnoxious Ahmad Shah by the simple expedient of blowing him from the muzzle of his biggest cannon...
...Blue Widow (by Marianne Brown Waters, produced by Lee and J. J. Shubert) is a repetitive comedy about a strumpet who can narrow and widen her eyes. Situation: into a country-houseful of friendly weekenders is insinuated a deceased playwright's baby-faced mistress, representing herself as a grief-shattered widow (Queenie Smith). Plot: she drills unremittingly into the head of every man visible that he is a big strong man, she a little weak woman. Thus she gets proposals of various kinds from a bachelor, a married man too much in love with his busy literary wife...