Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though it has no ghost, Boundary Against Night has almost everything else- spies, detectives, a conspiracy hatched after dark in a deserted church; 3 mad philosopher who sees the coming of complete moral darkness over the earth; a blind hero; a section devoted to Boston during the police strike (which appears from this account a bigger show than the French Revolution) ; a mass of characters, largely Irish, drawn about equally from the police and the underworld; returned soldiers, as embittered as they are eloquent; three suicides, a rape, a robbery and a final thundering climax in which a crazy policeman...
Fred Warning and his mad, merrymaking Pennsylvanians top the bill at the Metropolitan Theatre this week with an hour of swing punctuated by the informal capers of the orchestra. On the screen Mae West plays the rather weak part of a confidence girl with an honest heart in "Every Day's A Holiday...
...Protestants of Northern Ireland, this authority seems not only insufficient but provocative. They were boiling mad last week, and Viscount Craigavon, their Premier, was playing host in Belfast to new United Kingdom's Secretary of State for War Leslie Hore-Belisha. If there should be fighting as a result of the new Constitution, Secretary Hore-Belisha will have well surveyed the Irish ground...
...making poisonous remarks about her father. Thus, although it contains the story of Corn-plow's flight to Europe and the eventual reconciliation of his family as a result, most of The Prodigal Parents is given over to scenes in which Howard or Sara bait Cornplow, Cornplow gets mad, the children make wild speeches about youth and Communism and Cornplow answers with speeches defending businessmen. When Cornplow refuses to give $500 to the Spanish government, Sara snarls at him, "Heaven knows I can't give anything with my wretched income," and Cornplow snarls right back, "I know...
...wrathfully tacked up three pictures of the Duke & Duchess, received world-wide publicity except in Bermuda, where no paper deigned to touch the story. Said she: "I don't know how I had the nerve to chase the Bishop home and demand an explanation. But I was so mad...