Word: louders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cape Smoke. Since White Cargo has run over 500 performances and has been sued for plagiarism, the necessity of an imitation was obvious. This new African adventure is a good deal louder than White Cargo and a lot funnier. Most of the laughter...
...phrase or change for a quarter. At regular intervals, the cabdrivers hear, from within, a prolonged rattling murmur which means that an act has ended and the nonsports are giving an imitation of enthusiasm. On a certain cold night last week, they heard that familiar sound ; it seemed curiously louder, nor did it die away. While they swapped butts, it grew, swelled into a steady, insistent, thunderous, stubborn volley, lasted for 13 minutes. The shuffling ones stared at one another in silent amaze. ''Cheest!" they said...
...SHOW-OFF-The only worth-while comedy survival of the past season. A man who believes that words speak louder than actions...
Satan loomed tall as a tower; his eye was a jewel, his voice was thunder. On the stage of the Chicago Auditorium he stood, for the first time this year. He was Feodor Chaliapin, giant Russian basso, appearing in Boito's Mefistofele. Louder than ever boomed the great voice; the mountainous man, lithe for all his bulk, stalked, the incarnation of sinister and engaging evilness upon the boards. In one of his greatest roles he outdid himself. He suited his bones to the music of his throat, executed a physical fugue; in the Brocken scene, he boiled, surged like...
...house so intently watched by the throng came some rabbis, slowly bearing a coffin. The thousands in the street set up a louder cry and surged toward the hearse for a last look at the remains of their holy man, their "Chief Grand Rabbi." Called Isaac Friedman, he had come to them in the spring, from Sadagora, Austria, he saying, they believing, that he was of the seed of David in the legendary Messianic line that is to fulfill the Old Testament prophecy of the second coming of the Son of God. In their midst he had died. They carried...