Word: mission
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Shaw's plays, among them Major Barbara, are interesting for their people rather than their propaganda. Before any writer can portray Rummy Mitchens, a Salvation Army derelict, portrayed on the stage by Alice Cooper Cliffe, or Bill Walker (Percy Waram), he must have eaten humble cake in the mission houses of his trade. And before any writer can despise any human being as thoroughly as Author Shaw despises the son of his mouthpiece millionaire, it is necessary for the writer to have investigated him with the inquisitive sympathy of an artist, rather than the brief, scornful scrutiny...
...play, The Wild Duck is revived beautifully by the Actors' Theatre (which produced it five years ago), with Blanche Yurka as the placid wife of Hialmar Edkal and Dallas Anderson as her husband. Ralph Roeder is Gregers Werle who drops the final curtain by announcing that his true mission in life is ". . . to be thirteenth at table...
...expert of the U. S. Army, whose prophylactic approach to the swamps, cisterns and gutters of the Canal Zone and Havana meant the annihilation of mosquitoes. Since in those places the buzzing, spiralling mosquito brought yellow fever, other ravaging tropical plagues, the extermination of the insect was a mighty mission. Therefore is Col. Gorgas' memory revered in lands which before his coming were "fastnesses of death...
...haired, goateed Charles Richard Crane, supposedly of Manhattan, in reality most traveled of Americans. He is now 70. He devoted his prime to expansion of the famed Crane valves & fittings business. He has been U. S. Minister to China (1920-21), campaigner for Woodrow Wilson, member of his diplomatic mission to Russia. In 1919 he was commissioner on mandates in Turkey. He is President of Trustees of the American College for Girls in Constantinople. But governmental and business missions are but slight reason for Mr. Crane's voyaging. His wayfaring is that of the perpetual explorer...
...Midnight. A signal, a shout. Then the sound of machinery drilling in the black earth, while lights gleamed on 92 steel derricks and cut the black sky. That was midnight, last week, when an agreement to curtail drilling in the rich Maud and Mission territory near Seminole, Okla., came...