Word: lions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wingfield, as the "veteran poet" celebrating his ninetieth birthday with his adulous family and honored guest, does the best acting that has been seen on the Copley stage, or perhaps any Boston stage, this season, His shy pride, his innocent reminiscing, have the assurance of the genuine "literary lion." The role is a difficult one, for it involves a double pose-but there, again, we are dangerously near the "truth." Mr. Clive has become a meticulous Boswell to this poet, and has taken on the very mannerisms of a Vietorian "social secretary." As his wife, Miss Belmore shows just enough...
With Russian skill in diffuse natural detail, the scene is built up quickly and quietly, aided by the illusion of striking scenery. The clowns, the ballet, the lion-tamer, the wardrobe-mistress, go their way at home and without introduction; the manager carries on his routine of squabbles, and the actors come and go from rehearsals. Little by little, the threads of plot are woven together, the more important characters brought into relief and allowed to disclose their hearts in conversational ease. Their lives grow through the four acts of the play. The lion-tamer plays her wiles...
...lovely here at Stratford in the spring, with the trees all greening, the flowers peering forth under the old dry leaves in the woods and the river Avon tuning up for its song of summer. Bill, what do you say to strolling down to the Red Lion and splitting a bucket of sack...
...think we have succeeded in this. Nowhere else but in our Museum, not even in Germany, is there to be found such an impressive representation of early German architectural sculpture. Romanesque sculpture and architecture are fully brought to view by the Hildesheim monuments, the Augsburg bronze gates, the Braunsehweig Lion, the Wechselburg pulpit and Crucifixion groups, the Strassburg Death of Mary, the sculptures from Bamberg cathedral, and the wonderful Golden Gate of Freiberg. Of the height of mediaeval sculpture represented in our museum it may suffice to single out the colossal Rood-screen and the twelve statues of Founders...
...earmarks of the common type of best-seller. In many ways, it would have been better if it had been, for Mr. Quick could have produced an exceedingly interesting volume by holding to the thread of history of contrast. It is a story of middle aged lion between a very young girls, who more firmly. As it is, by sugar coating schoolbook facts with the conventional love trash, he introduces an element which is both out of place and annoying. The heroine may be the cause of all the difficulty, for she is the worst-drawn character in the book...