Word: heartbreak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Grundy's lips were sealed as if to part them would loose only sobs of heartbreak, but Mr. Grundy's friends predicted that he would "go along" with the Hoover Administration on limited tariff revision. For after all, some tariff boosting is better than none...
PORGY?Song, chatter and heartbreak in the negro quarter along the Charleston waterfront (TIME...
Repertory--"Heartbreak House...
...first showing here "Heartbreak House" disturbed more than it satisfied, and the explanation for this is to be sought as much in its performance as in its book. The persons of the play are not all mere Shavian types, but present among their numbers true character studies. And it is in playing these character studies that the Repertory actors excelled. There was a flatness of level in their portrayal of the types, a tendency to overplay and make garishly unreal the half people, which was remarkably absent from their rendering of the character parts...
...performances of the evening the playing of Peg Entwistle as Ellie Duan was the most interesting. When the play opened upon its strange first scene, the room like a ship's cabin in Heartbreak House, Ellie Dunn was a living character. Before the play was half over she had turned from a young and attractive girl with her own personality to a type hard and cold and self-seeking. And when the play ended she was again become a living personality. It was this transition which Illustrated most exactly the difference between Shaw's characters and his types...