Word: playing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secondly, Mr. Editor, I do not see any reason for a sound-minded editor to play with the personalities and looks of other people. If Mr. Foroughi has a bushy black beard, it is none of your confounded business. Did I or any other Persian ever tell you that you look like a monkey; no, because we do not care how you look. Did we ever say that your ex-president has a hooklike nose, or that your ambassador to Great Britain is usually conspicuous by his nose? No, that is none of our business; these matters though small...
Rope's End. A malevolent scent pervades the theatre wherein this play is exhibited. Perhaps it really exists. More likely it is imaginary, for the audience observes such diseased events as render the senses unreliable. The play and its players have chilled London for several months with their tale of two Oxford undergraduates (Sebastian Shaw and Ivan Brandt) who divert themselves by strangling a happy classmate and serving dinner on the carven chest which contains his corpse. Among their guests are the father and aunt of the deceased. Also present is Rupert Cadell (Ernest Milton), a cynical, orchidaceous poet...
...Awful Truth (Pathe). The efforts of young couples recently married to make adjustments requisite to their new mode of living have furnished material for numerous theatrical pieces, few of them more lighthearted than this play of Arthur Richman's. It was a play well fitted to be made into a picture because it moves fast, avoids dexterously all the deeper implications of its situations. Even the judge and family friend who early in the proceedings grants the Warriners an interlocutory decree of divorce is clearly in collusion with the author in his determination to bring things out happily. After...
...where she grew up and went to public school. Her father was killed in an accident four months before she was born. Although her present familiarity with the great figures of the past suggests, perhaps correctly, long silent hours devoted to scholarship, friends recall that her penchant for playing hooky worried her mother a lot until Ina convinced her that, as she had already determined to become an actress, she did not need an education. What she needed, she insisted, was emotion. She made what use she could of this quality in her first vaudeville part, which she achieved...
...second division will not start until Tuesday afternoon with play on Jarvis and Divinity. The doubles in which there is an unusually large field of contestants, is scheduled for Wednesday...