Word: protagonist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Most important Metropolitan debutant was German Heldentenor Carl Hartmann, who had made previous U. S. appearances with the German Opera Company in 1931. As principal protagonist in one of the finest Siegfrieds in decades, long-legged, prancing Hartmann acted his role as though he were living it, sang and pounded his anvil with energy and musicianship, peeled the armor from sleeping Brunnhilde (Marjorie Lawrence) with a taxidermist's skill. Vocally he wavered once or twice, but he lived up to the excellent reports of his ability which had leaked out from rehearsals...
...Chief protagonist on the Arab side was Seyyid Hikmat Suleiman, Prime Minister of Iraq who issued a spate of violent pronouncements damning the partition. Arab chiefs promptly assumed that Prime Minister Suleiman's outburst was part of "a British job." They argued that if Britain really favored the partition, Iraq would not have dared poke her nose...
...telescoped chronicle of a London family-an upper middle-class family, like all Virginia Woolf's principal characters. But the actors are not the first thing seen. The curtain goes up on a scene that is pointedly empty of human beings. Time is to be the real protagonist of the story: "At length the moon rose and its polished coin, though obscured now and then by wisps of cloud, shone out with serenity, with severity, or perhaps with complete indifference. Slowly wheeling, like the rays of a searchlight, the days, the weeks, the years passed one after another across...
...befits the beginning of a sequel, the end of the first scene found the protagonist involved in new difficulties. His final speech, a sober fireside chat appealing to the nation on behalf of his Supreme Court plan was in a far different setting from the flourish of trumpets which closed Part I. His supporters rushed to the White House to group themselves around him in a final tableau. Then he disappeared into the wings, proceeded to his dressing room for intermission: Secretaries Hull and Roper, Attorney General Cummings, Senator Hugo LaFayette Black drove with him through slush-filled Washington streets...
...Governor-General Lord Tweedsmuir (John Buchan); while the President is dallying with the idea of a U. S. diplomatic reshuffling and the still bigger idea of some major proposal to promote world peace-was as good an indication as any man could ask that during the entr'acte Protagonist Roosevelt intended to rehearse important lines for use later in the play...