Word: minore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Year," in which payments under the Dawes plan must reach 1,750,000,000 marks ($416,500,000) for the first time, the deputies were in no hurry, last week, to consider the figures which explain how Germany can pay so huge a sum. As the session began, only minor bills were considered, and the Franco-German Trade Treaty was rushed through its third and final reading...
...scenes, the tear behind the smile. Warner Oland, as a woebegone clown, picks his way carefully and with success through the pathos that at times threatens to bog the story. In the supporting cast, Helene Costello supplies decoration, Montague Love villainy and Clyde Cook a fine performance in a minor role...
...program is as follows: I. Hejre Kati Hubay II. Meditation from "Thais" Massanet III. The Old Refrain Kreisler IV. Tambowrin Chinois Kreisler Mr. Lind II I. Scherso in B minor Chopin II. Etude in E major Chopin III. Etude in G flat major Chopin Mr. Anderson III. I. Legende Wieriawski II. Elebesfreud Kreisler
...which part Rufus Hill is everything that a Southern colonel ought to be, the cast is composed entirely of negro actors who accentuate the distinctive quality of the play. Thomas Moseley fills the difficult role of Abraham, the ill-starred hero of the piece, with credit, while the minor characters introduced as back-ground or as comic relief are so natural and at times so amusing that it is difficult to find any point in which improvement might be suggested...
Perhaps the chief elements in this work which give it a claim to eminence among contemporary dramatic productions are its striking individuality and its thoroughly consistent theme of inevitable tragedy. Added to these elements is an unusual realism in the delineation of the minor characters, all of which, by the way, are played with great native ability by their negro interpreters...