Word: ophelia
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...theme of this comedy is well supported by the cast. Laurette Bullivant as the jilted flancee produces an excellent burlesque of Ophelia, "Whiskey, that's for forgetfulness!" Grayce Hampton, the maid who has lived with the family so long that she now runs it, gestures agreeably the more so when she is drunk. Miss Frederick, her majesty, handles her role with great sophistication and taste, and with scarcely a single let-down. The other support is adequate...
...what was going on, the harm was done. Markie, who knew better than to marry anybody, had broken Emmeline's heart by acting like the honest cad he was. If Emmeline had been less defenseless, less trusting, she might have got over it: but she was in the Ophelia tradition and took Ophelia...
...quickly. For effects of grandeur and to isolate the various spheres of activity, Producer Geddes has resorted to a battery of large colored spotlights. Give Mr. Geddes a set of spotlights and you are very likely to disregard the play. No one pays much attention to Ophelia's mad scene because just then Mr. Geddes displays a most extraordinary lighting trick: bathed in saffron light, the actors cast bottle-green shadows...
...London, the will of Arthur Pepper, who left property of ?95, gave power of attorney to a relative named Ann Bertha Cecilia Diana Emily Fanny Gertrude Hypatia Inez Jane Kate Louisa Maud Nora Ophelia Quince Rebecca Starkey Teresa Ulysses Venus Winifred Xenophon Yetta Zenus Pepper...
...Leroy Sossamon, blond and blue-eyed, of Bethel High School and to Ophelia Holley, chocolate brown, Governor Gardner awarded two large identic silver loving cups for their prize-winning essays. Then, with them, he walked out before the statue of Governor Charles Brantley Aycock to be photographed. His political friends, suddenly apprehensive, reminded him that no southern Governor had ever had his picture taken publicly with a Negro, warned him that such a photograph would be used against him in future campaigns. Undaunted, Governor Gardner ranged the black girl on his right and the white boy on his left, ordered...