Word: morphia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...actors: ". . . the eloquent Mr. Yancey; Varina Howell who loved Jefferson Davis all her life; Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard, cast in an obligation of honor dark and ringing like bronze; Albert Sidney Johnston in the loneliness of early Texas; Captain Maffitt driving precarious steamboats, heavy with cotton, and priceless with morphia and powder and gold, into the blockaded night; Nathan Forrest charging at the head of his troops, with his great sabre ground to a razor edge; Belle Boyd, who was more dangerous, more destructive, than canister or solid shot; Jeb Stuart decorated with a rose, wound in a yellow silk...
...phanie of Belgium) reacted to her husband's infatuation for the Baroness Vetschera with such violence that she hurled, from time to time, numerous articles of bric-à-brac at him-a fact incontestably proved. He, vexed, indulged himself the more riotously, inhaled ether and took morphia when he found that champagne had no more effect upon him. At last the Archduchess persuaded the Emperor Franz Josef to command her husband to break with the Baroness Vetschera. Moody, the Archduke departed for Mayerling, driven by his favorite coachman, one Bratfisch ("Fried Fish...
...nervous shivering, furtive sniffs of coke, and dull-eyed fits of depression, but rather a bright and sunny addict, having a good time with her drugs. In fact the very Pollyanna of snow birds, now singing, now clowning, now whimsical, but always looking on the bright side of morphia. It is, perhaps, the most interesting and innocuous, if the least harrowing of the dope plays, which will take some of the sting out of the current Hearst expose of the narcotic evil. A good antidote and counterblast for the meretricious pity and terror inspired by such dope plays as Morphia...
...least it is easy to recognize. Lowell Sherman has it, and makes the most of it by his incomparable technique. He is at present putting over two mediocre plays at once? Morphia and The Masked Woman? by sheer force of his individuality. Jeanne Eagels has it, although she rather strains for it in Eain, and Helen Menken's youthful fire is responsible for a good deal of the thrill in Seventh Heaven...
...Morphia. Lowell Sherman, master-villain, appears at special matinees in Morphia, Viennese play, in which dope plays a prominent and timely part...