Word: hell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...something of the aspect of a religious teacher, not a theologian not a didacticism, but one who used as his text the Gospel story of the raising of Lazarus. He becomes rather the man who, having passed through a life of suffering and deprivation and a decade of hell in the Siberian katorga, returned without losing faith in humanity and with boundless pity for the insulted and injured. A man like that must look at life from more angles than one, and it is primarily the task of calling forth Dostoevsky's human philosophy that Mr. Meler-Graefe...
...tragedy of minorities usually is that their leaders are unknown men whom the minority has neither the wit nor the money to publicize. And usually a minority is no greater than its biggest man. Bravely facing this fact, Nominee Webb has been issuing leaflets headlined: "Who the hell is Webb...
...answer is that he is a slender, grey-crested person with a Romish nose and a sartorial perfection suggestive of the stage. Who the hell is he? He was born on the Mother Lode of California 59 years ago and one of his parents had Mayflower ancestors. He is one of those persons who has been vaguely "associated with" and "closely allied with" various famous people. His biography gives a onetime State Engineer of New York, the Board of Supervisors of San Francisco, and the late Major-General Leonard Wood, as references. He "has travelled in many parts...
That is what may seem a terrible play, sight unseen, but each role has been given to a thorough player. The sets by Yellenti include one of a scene in No Man's Land which must give an authentic impression of that hell to one who has never been there. Upon the square shoulders of George Jessel has been placed the task of carrying off the play's heavier moments-a task to which he is more than equal...
Ability, judgment, and loyalty are good money anywhere. They are too good money to invest in the paying stones of hell. A paved street is a handsome sight, but unless there is traffic on the street it leads nowhere. And there are plenty of people who sell paying stones. That's their weakness...