Word: misses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decades Maude Royden has preached vigorous sermons in and out of a church where precedent does not allow women the right to preach. An Anglican, she first sermonized under the auspices of a rector who evaded the precedent by announcing : "The service is at an end. Miss Royden will now talk." A pioneer suffragist, Socialist sister of Shipping Tycoon Sir Thomas Royden, she was launched as an active pulpiteer by Dr. Joseph Fort Newton, who in 1917 made her his assistant at London's City Temple, "Cathedral of British Nonconformity." With Canon Percy Dearmer she founded fellowship services...
Packed with more downright charm and fun than any other show on Broadway, High Tor droops only occasionally when Miss Ashcroft or an incidental Indian has to declaim some of Playwright Anderson's indefatigable verse. As to acting, more important theft than the stage bank robbery is Actor Charles D. Brown's outright steal of the whole show in the part of De Witt, the oldest and saltiest Dutchman. For years cast as a theatrical cop or robber, Actor Brown comes into his own at last when, in pantaloons and a huge hat, he comes to grips with...
...program will close Thursday afternoon with an address given by Anna Louise Strong of Russia, who will speak on "The Far East--Is War Inevitable?" Miss Strong has crossed many frontiers during the past months and the discussion will concern "The People's Front...
...Political Philosophies will be held Tuesday evening at 8:15 o'clock. Under the leadership of William Y. Elliott, Professor of Government at Harvard, the following spokesmen, each representing a political philosophy, will participate: Fascism, Judge Felix Forte; Communism, George Blake, New England Secretary of Organization, Communist Party; Nationalism, Miss Sarah Wambaugh, widely experienced in international adjustments and policies; Professor Elliott will speak for Democracy...
...pictures set here and there to advertise the play, give a very deceptive indication of Miss Bankhead's charms, chiefly because they give the suggestion of her voice. The rich, strong tones of its lower ranges come much closer than do her slightly saccharine, languishing looks, to expressing the pungency unstained by her throughout the play. She uses that voice of roar, chatter, rave allure, and when it breaks, to breaks. The combined effect is to give what Mr. Kelly twice defines, through the mouths of lovers, as color, to a character than would otherwise be rather insipid be cause...