Word: outcastes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Vaudeville of an endurable nature makes its first appearance in Boston this week under the aegis of the new B. F. Keith Memorial theatre. Six acts and a motion picture, "Outcast," featuring the orchidarious Corinne Griffith and Edmund Lowe form the offering. It has variety, merit, and enough novelty to surprise a Boston audience...
Griffith made her an old woman-the pinchfaced mother in Judith of Bethulia, Intolerance; he made her an outcast girl in Way Down East, Colonel Cameron's sweetheart in Birth of a Nation. She went with him from Biograph to Reliance, Majestic, Fine Arts, Artcraft, First National, United Artists. Somehow, no matter how bad the scenario was, her intelligence brought to certain moments and situations that reality which is the definition of great acting and which Miss Gish's famous frailty, her dimples, her soft, elliptical face, and her pale hair down to her waist could not keep...
...Jamie were twins. Ludovic married sensibly enough; but Isabella roved the woods, or sought out her brother's foils in the attic, and spent hours "fencing with unstable shadows cast by the candles that she lit in the dusk." When Ludovic killed her lover, a beautiful and outcast Jew, Isabella in turn killed her brother, and fled with a gypsyman to whom she bore seven sons and a daughter...
...political convulsion in Illinois (see p. 11) echoed in the Senate. Many a Senator expressed relief that Frank L. Smith, Senate outcast, had been cast out also by the people of Illinois as an exponent of corruption instead of canonized as a martyr to States' rights...
...Russell: "I feel insulted that President Frank did not communicate courteously with me but caused the students to cancel the meeting. Dean Goodnight refused to allow the students to invite me to dinner. I was treated as an intellectual and social outcast...