Word: havoc
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...Havoc. Two War plays from London are on the list this year, successes both across the Sea. The first is Havoc. The second, The Conquering Hero, which will enter town via the Theatre Guild. Havoc is a front-line melodrama, highly charged with the forces of excitement, toned with tragedy and substantially spattered with romance...
...most significant inclination of the new season is the return of the War play. Next week TIME will be occupied with discussions of Nerves by John Farrar and Stephen Vincent Benét and of Glory by Laurence Stallings and Maxwell Anderson. Hard on their heels will come Havoc, fresh from a London success, and The Conquering Hero, by Allan Monkhouse, an Englishman, under the beneficent auspices of the Theatre Guild. At least two others are now in preparation. The swagger and tinsel of war in the theatre of eight years ago has been discarded. The majority of these new productions...
...heroine is described as possessing the "composure of a cobra and the face of six or seven madonnas." This generosity in the matter of faces seems somewhat needless, for she could wreak enough havoc with one. Her actions are at times reminiscent of Cytherea. Thus: "Tony [a youth] drew Angela to him, murmuring huskily. Her eyes were rich with invitation and desire. She resisted him, not only with her white arms, but with all her will, crying softly: 'Don't, Tony! Oh don't, dear boy!' But she was a gardenia, soft and lush and pale...
Last week the Committee, having wrought havoc in the political firmament wrote its report. On the very day that the report was completed Senator La Follette again walked down the aisle. He held another piece of paper,, and he smiled as he raised his hand and said "Mr. President?...
This spring the cold, wet weather has played havoc with many different lines of business. Would-be purveyors of Spring garments have had to swallow a bitter pill. Buyers of automobiles and automobile accessories have held back. The consumption of gasoline has been adversely affected. The latest victim of the wintry Spring has been the sugar trade. The producers of sugar have held large amounts of raw sugar in hopes of high prices, while merchants and refiners have held back in expectation of a drop in prices. The cold weather has perceptibly decreased the normal consumption of sugar...