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...production is a risk because it is old fashioned. It is a leisurely piece with a purpose. Brieux, French author of the original, is inclined to propaganda (Damaged Goods and The Red Robe). Modern plays have hurried things up be hind the footlights. If they have a sermon to preach they take care to cast it in intensive words and action. Accused is largely argument, brilliant and searching argument to be sure, but developed in long paragraphs...
...black velvet sofa pillow-that the princeling's rotund body, swathed in the ribbon-counter elegance of his period, would appear almost slight if mounted upon a very fat pony-that the obese quadruped would appear speedy as a blooded stallion if he were poised on his hind-legs against a sky of troubled fire and blown grey cloud. (The result of Velazquez's cogitation, Prince Baltasar Carlos, hangs in the Prado Gallery in Madrid...
...Prince (TiME, Dec. 15). There is a military chorus to boom close harmony and rumble rifles. Florenz Ziegfeld has window-dressed the scenes far above the usual art-calendar level. The book has been only partially translated from the lumbering German. It would lose momentum but for Errol's hind legs...
...Story. "The doctor . . . was holding up, like a butcher, by the hind legs, a little animal the size of a sucking pig." Thus Julie Cane makes her appearance in Findellen...
Algeron E. Fitzpatrick, of the Malta Boat Club of Philadelphia, Gilmore's conqueror in the quarter-mile race, trailed three lengths be hind over the mile-and-a-quarter stretch. Gilmore's time, a new Association record...