Word: plays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...skilled dramatist could simplify the problem, after the custom of his craft, by presenting to us a study of a man and woman about to marry and applying, each without the other's knowledge, for the same post. If he secures it, the play ends happily. If she secures it, the social loss is clear. This is what actually is taking place on a large scale-all over the world...
...commanding lady appeared, last week in the Zoological Gardens at Bristol, where a Conservative party picnic was being held. When reporters crowded round, the lady pinked with amiability. "I was wondering as I entered the Zoo," she said, "in what category I really belong. I am too old to play with the monkeys or quack with the ducks. I do not want to be enrolled among the geese, and still less among the boars. I wonder where I belong...
...depraved Shamanistic religion. The celebrated Tashi Lumpo monastery, residence of the abdicated Tashi Lama, has been deserted and desecrated. Lamas, teachers of the people, tell fortunes for alms, by the haunches of mutton, or dice; they beg and cheat; to mystify the ignorant, they mutter squeaky conjurations or play with human bones. The forest-dwelling Buddhists revere arrows and absurd amulets. Conscious reverence for Buddha is held by very...
...scandalously peppermint-coated film also opened. Its idea is that earnest little girls are given a break in the big & naughty Scandals. Earnest Sally (Bessie Love) leaps from the chorus to save the show on the opening night, when the haughty star becomes temperamental. The star, ousted, tries to play a dastardly trick on Sally, but fails. Sally also has matrimonial difficulties, which are eventually solved by the kindly producer. . . . Miss Love is adequate; that...
...Michigan Kid. Foul play on the part of the villain leaves the hero (Conrad Nagel) trapped in a forest fire. A woman's intuition on the part of the leading woman (Renée Adoree) saves the hero. It is just another one of those things...