Word: prussing
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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...theatre--and that is not to talk too much. The subtlety of the dramatist is never shrouded by the verbosity of the translator, and it is not the latter's fault that you are at first plunged into the long-winded legal history of the famous Gregor vs. Pruss case. However, you soon emerge with the blessed realization that it doesn't matter a whit if you did not follow it all. In only goes to show that the wheels of justice grind slow and exceeding fine in Czecho-Slovak, as they do in English...
...heroine, who lives for centuries, beside whom the 60 year old Countess of our own best-seller, "Black Oxen", is a mere babbling infant, brings to the role the voice and the intelligence that it demands. D. D. Driscoll, '26, as Dr. Kolonaty, and Edwards Sanchez, '26, as Baron Pruss, give really delightful characterizations. Both have the rare quality of distinction. Mr. Driscoll possesses the vitality and driving power which is always thrice welcome in an amateur production...