Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years ago, stores, theatres ard even churches in Omaha were closed and darkened after nightfall for fear of the "phantom sniper," a creature who, invisible for nearly two weeks, moved through the evening streets firing a silent pistol at whatever human targets took his fancy in the house windows or under streetlights. A contractor was first to die. Then a doctor was slain in his office. A railroad detective was riddled in the freight yards. A bullet smashed past a girl at a drugstore counter. The "phantom" also went shooting in Council Bluffs, Iowa, across the Missouri River. His weapon...
Last week La Campana Sommersa, the music by Ottorino Respighi to a libretto by Claudio Guastalla taken from Hauptmann's play, had its U. S. premiere at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan. Rautendelein was still its inspiration, Heinrich still the heckled human. And for it all Respighi had made lovely, lyric music. But operatic singers, operatic trappings rarely enhance a poetic mood. Soprano Elisabeth Rethberg as Rautendelein managed her bulk skillfully, sang difficult music easily, spent clear high notes' lavishly. But her appearance, her acting left little illusion. Nor could Giovanni Martinelli forget he was a tenor...
...Play Without a Name. Upon that familiar pattern, the triangle, Austin ("Seventh-Heaven") Strong has superimposed a less readily recognizable, fourth-dimensional figure. It consists of a strong-interlusive plotting of the working of the human brain...
...appointment is to be announced he resigns his position, feeling that he is not to get the coveted appointment. Next day he tells his wife, is still explaining away when in bursts an old flame. At this point Playwright Strong trephines the husband's skull, lays open the human brain. Centers of nerve control are represented by figures at sets of levers much like those in a railroad switching tower. One normal voice speaks the words that the husband has spoken aloud during the first scene of the play. Another voice, terrifyingly mechanical, intones the husband's unspoken...
...York World last week related that Bernard Shaw had once assured him that the characters of whom he wrote were interesting to him only as megaphones through which he himself might voice his social speculations; but since it is impossible to have much interest in ideas about human problems without having first an even larger interest in the human beings who are faced with them, Shaw's plays, among them Major Barbara, are interesting for their people rather than their propaganda. Before any writer can portray Rummy Mitchens, a Salvation Army derelict, portrayed on the stage by Alice Cooper...