Word: portrayals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Mr. Simeon Fess, ex-Chairman of the Republican Congressional Committee, attempts to portray the President as a lawgiver and executive of the blood and stature of Lincoln, public opinion is at once skeptical and on the defense. When, on the other hand, The New York World, or Mr. Joseph T. Robinson, minority leader in the Senate, impale him upon a phrase like "the creature of a Senatorial oligarchy," or call him the " synthetic automaton of a few reactionary political doctors who met secretly in a room in the Blackstone Hotel in 1920," public prejudice and the mob's love...
These stories are all constructed to portray one theme,--the human being on the rack; on the rack of physical pain, or anguish of the soul or unattained emotion. They illustrate a self-conscious passion, an examination of all of the details of human passion. In fact they constitute the very summary of all of the elements of the subjective...
...such a change is by no means regretable. The increased possibilities, the easy access to Boston have not changed all the old customs. Rooms still portray personality whether it be through cards on the floor and "Life" on the table or by etchings, old prints and Maxfield Parrish. There are too, here and there, private libraries and even secluded and picturesque "eating houses", if one cares to seek them...
...author has chosen a difficult task. He attempts to portray the psychological development of a not strictly average individual. His method is to picture, in kaleidoscopic glimpses, Sellaby's attitudes towards--well, towards things. Mr. Benet succeeds rather remarkably well, too, because he succeeds in putting his puppet through a great variety of experiences. Some of the incidents are very well told, and might stand alone as good short stories. But with clever artistry, Mr. Benet has inserted one or two themes into his narrative which serve to unify the whole quite effectively...
...fantasy "Hagoromo", Miss Madeline Brine, as the Tennin girl, will portray the Japanese nymph whose feathery cloak, capable of giving its owner the power to fly through the wind and clouds, is stolen by the fisherman, played by Henderson Matthews. She is unable to return to her native haunts in Tryiyama without it, and finally retrieves if from the fisherman by teaching him the quaint dance of the Tennins...