Word: hottentot
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...prosperous cities? Chicago, for the most blatant ex- ample?have such frightful local governments? A Hottentot could give the answer; the electorates do not care...
Introduce Me. Douglas MacLean takes his smile for an airing on the Alps. As in his earlier picture, The Hottentot, Mr. MacLean is again a timid young man harried into rash deeds for the sake of a maiden fair. Constructed along formulistic lines, his gallivanting around the dizzy cliffs yet has its comic urge...
...hallowed boards of the Metropolitan Opera Company may soon be graced, or disgraced, by a jazz opera--bizarre monster which could only be conceived in this land of Puritan hymnals and Hottentot orgiastic syncopation. The jazz-some scores of American popular ballads of "blues" and "mammies" are to be metamorphosed from their present fragmentary staff into an epic-like opera of the formerly humble working girl. Where princeases and courtesans footed nimbly across the stage and devastated admirers with their blasting rant, the tender shop or factory girl, the Cinderella princess of the automobile and ready-made clothes, will share...
...please their audience, of none too recent vintage. Instead, the players at the St. James have acted, for the most part, pieces seen in Boston no longer, ago than last season, hardly more than two seasons old in the whole American theatre. "Scandal," "Clarence," "The Passion Flower," "The Hottentot" --to name four of their five plays thus far--have all been so chosen. Resurrecting "Mamma's Affair," spying out "The Big Game," choosing the pieces aforesaid, the St. James escapes the rut of the sure and the standardized, adds to the current interest of the Bostonian stage...
...test of "The Hottentot," last evening, by good report of previous pieces, performance at the St. James escapes equally the usual shortcomings. Only one player in William Collier's whilom farce acted in conventional stock-company fashion--with half an eye and more on the audience, incessant play of mechanical gesture and glance, the air that says in fidgets: "You must look at me." Only one more suggested now and then the weary, wizened routine, the treadmill acting, that is the other pitfall of stock theatres. The rest came alertly, intelligently, to their parts, shaped them into such characters...