Word: kaffir
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which the wicked and black-browed millionaire was murdered on the eve of his wedding. Of the dozen or two people in the play, nearly every one was suspected at one time or another; but the burden of suspicion fell on a discarded mistress, her two sons, a Kaffir servant and a stout Irishwoman included in the name of comedy. All these and the others were collected in the final scene before the District Attorney, who proceeded to carve out the culprit in time for an eleven o'clock curtain. No notable acting enlivened these proceedings, though the general average...
...starts off stoutly enough with a fearful kaffir curse by which three Englishmen and an American are to die. The British mortality is high by the ending act, but the American, naturally, survives. If they do it in London? which they will not?the three-in-one nationalities must be shuffled...
...stolid Berliner and his wife, sister and daughter, whom Gest bedecked in Moslem costumes, instructed to pray ostentatiously to the East every day on the boat coming over, and covered with fleeting fame by having them rejected at a Broadway hotel where they had tried to register as Abdul Kaffir and wives...
...stolid Berliner and his wife, sister, daughter, masquerading as Abdul Kaffir...
Ponjola is a picture of the regeneration of an African mining expert. Mainly important because Anna Q. Nilsson cut off her hair to play the "man " - later the woman - who accomplished the regeneration. Ponjola is the Kaffir word for whiskey...