Word: riotousness
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...says, "Man still goes on believing that tomorrow will be better. This faith is the greatest miracle of all--this is today's miracle, and tomorrow's, and tomorrow's." Patrick's writing is able to move this strongly, and yet it can at other times bring on riotous laughter. It is principally because of his considerable skill that the play goes deeper than the conventional story line...
...Peter Pan. As Peter, who has from Maude Adams to the present always been played for some reason by a woman, Miss Harris was captivatingly pixyish. Eric Portman might have brought more bravado to the traditional double role of the Father and Captain Hook. Ellis Rabb provided an unbeatably riotous Smee, an elaboration of the Starveling he did in Midsummer Night's Dream at Stratford a year ago. The production employed the original music of John Crooke, which Barrie himself had termed "delightful." And special equipment was set up to allow four characters at once to fly through...
...entirely different mood, neither nymph-like nor villainous, Ellis Rabb is absolutely superb. It is no news that Mr. Rabb is a fine classic actor (having appeared as Hamlet and Lear to great critical acclaim); but as Smee, Captain Hook's sentimental side-kick, he is just plain riotous. He has but to walk across the stage to get a laugh. The characterization is similar to one he used as Starveling in A Midsummer Night's Dream at Stratford last summer; but since he has considerably more to say as Smee, the concept is considerably enlarged. The shaky voice...
...people. The students marked some of the houses 'suspect' and others 'for dragging.' " Kassem's wrath next turned to the Red-dominated Iraqi trade unions, which he accused of engaging too heavily in politics. Almost as a footnote, he referred to another riotous occasion-the Mosul uprising last March in which a notorious Communist lawyer "buried 17 persons alive...
...banned from attending any meetings or gatherings and barred from travel outside his home province. Legally, this move seems inexcusable, since the action amounts to limiting freedom on mere suspicion of intention to advocate the overthrow of the government. However, under South Africa's Suppression of Communism Act and Riotous Assemblies Act, all things are possible. (Luthuli was scheduled to be the principle speaker at a mass meeting of the African National Congress on Saturday...