Word: paired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course, there is a happy ending. The pair return, get married, and compel Raleigh Crane Sr. to satisfy the material desires of his in-laws. The excellence of the acting smacked of professionalism. In fact, it would be extremely difficult to pick out anyone who surpassed the rest. The whole cast combined to give the sort of performance seldom seen in amateur circles, but which 47 Workshop audiences have learned to expect...
...opening acts lies in the gradual awakening of the various characters to their destination. They are a most miscellaneous assembly-a drunken youth, a clergyman, Mrs. Cleveden Banks with all the careless vices of wealthy indolence, a business man with all the offensive manner of success, a pair of lovers, a charwoman, a steward...
...reddish mustache whacked off with a pair of manicure scissors...
...Yesterday young Sidis was wearing a cheap brown suit, much too tight for his fleshy frame. He had not been shaved; his reddish mustache was a ragged fringe that appeared to have been whacked off with a pair of manicure scissors. His mop of mouse-colored hair was in need of trimming. His necktie was in a hard knot that did not come within inches of his collar...
...Widener does not so choose. He wants the pictures-not the financial profit. Even so, he is well ahead of the game, for this particular pair of portraits could be marketed for a good deal more than ?100,000 if they are genuine Rembrandts, or even if painted by Vermeer of Delft, as Dr. Van Dyke somewhat fantastically asserts in his disquieting book. The figure mentioned at the time of Mr. Widener's "purchase" two years...