Word: lovering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Teddy, coal-black boiler room cat at the Metropolitan Opera, last week momentarily disrupted a performance of Turandot. As the curtain rose for the third act, Signor Lauri-Volpi, my stage lover, was disclosed supposedly asleep on the steps of my palace. Teddy advanced toward him across the stage. Box-holders jerked their opera glasses into position. Others opened wide their eyes. There was tittering, laughter and one great solemn guffaw. Teddy prowled on. Lauri-Volpi rose to sing. The audience roared. I, offstage, about to go on, had hard work to keep the severe demeanor of the cold Chinese...
...Devil in the Cheese (produced in Pasadena a year ago). In Tom Cushing's play, a piece of cheese before bedtime brings on a good dream in which the secret chambers of a girl's mind are explored. Everywhere, the seeker finds the radiant image of her lover enshrined in fancy as President of the U. S., single-handed conqueror of South Sea Island tribes, hero in all things. This sublimated suitor is, in reality, a ship's steward, opposed by the girl's father who prefers a colorless favorite of his own choosing. The action...
...heart of a Jewess, keeping alive in her perturbed breast the love she bore the spirit when it possessed a body of its own. Priestly folk would exorcise the disturber in the interests of sensible matrimony to a wealthy wooer. But with shrieks and groans the ghostly lover wages a sturdy, though mystical, battle for the lady and romance. With this material the Neighborhood Players present, as they did last year, tense, reverent drama, made as plausibly realistic as the material will permit...
...faces with unusual pigments in strange designs, interpret their mysterious emotions before impressionistic scenery. As artists detached from the world on the other side of the footlights, they breathe unmistakable intensity into their roles. Anna Rovina, who plays Leah, the body haunted by the restless spirit of her dead lover, is heralded as one of the world's greatest actresses. In gesture and movement, she speaks eloquently to those in the audience with whom she cannot communicate through the medium of language...
...come hard in the Great Smokies. Poet Heyward, who summers there, has tried a distillation of these three, achieving a glorious color but not much kick. Angel Thornley, the hillbilly preacher's girl, bathes at misty dawn beneath a rainbowed waterfall. Her father sets the sheriff on her lover, Buck Merritt, moonshiner, and marries her off to a mountaineer to make her an honest woman. After several years of cussing and slamming the door of their shack, the mountaineer blows himself up working on a road gang. Buck Merritt gets his pardon just then and comes back for Angel...