Word: peering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many are palpably quackish or too weirdly fantastic to warrant investigation. Almost every plant known to botany has been claimed as a specific, with bloodroot an easy first. Red clover chopped fine, a diet of snails and mud baths have their advocates. Lord Atholstan is the first Canadian-born peer to be raised to the House of Lords for services to the Empire. He is a self-made man who joined the staff of the Montreal Gazette at the age of 18, and at 21, with a capital of $100, he combined with George T. Lanigan, the writer, to establish...
...PEER GYNT-A play which Ibsen never meant for the stage made beautiful and effectively intelligible by the Theatre Guild. Joseph Schildkraut is the dreaming boaster of the title role...
...PEER GYNT-Many people considered Ibsen crazy when he wrote h is great fantastic allegory. Others considered the Theatre Guild crazy to produce it. Peer Gynt has succeeded financially as well as artistically. Joseph Schildkraut is the dreaming boaster of the title...
These are the plays, which, in the light of metropolitan criticism, seem most important: PEER GYNT-Ibsen's tragi-comic epic of the seeker of self-realization, effectively staged by Kommisashevsky, master of the Russian School of Expressionism, and competently acted by Joseph Schildkraut. Some of the settings by Lee Simonson mark the high points in his enviable record of artistic achievement. ROMEO AND JULIET-Next to Hamlet the longest run a Shakespearean play has enjoyed in America in the current century. Superbly acted by Jane Cowl and Rollo Peters. MERTON OF THE MOVIES - The pathos of hokum. Glenn...
...PEER GYNT-" Down the vast edges drear" of a hard-hearted world Ibsen leads his epic hero on the futile quest of the meaning of lite. Peer, the boaster, the seeker of self-realization and the victim of a relentless wanderlust, is played by Joseph Schildkraut. Lee Simonson's settings are eerily effective...