Word: roles
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...favorite vehicle of Sarah Bernhardt, Ethel Terry and many another famed tragedienne. When Pauline Frederick returned to the legitimate theatre in England recently, she chose it for her play, was rewarded with an ovation (TIME, March 14). In the present revival Carroll McComas will play the title role, supported by Rex Cherryman, late of The Noose cast...
Makar, declared: "It is significant that the murder of Minister Vojkov occurred just after the rupture between England and Russia. There has not been one murder of a Soviet leader in which England has not played a dominating role...
Elaborating his thesis, Dr. Mendelsohn said: "The human body's motive power is represented by the cellular activity of the glands and skin in absorbing and excreting liquids which furnish the requisite fuel for the human motor, whereas the heart and blood circulation merely play a regulative role in distributing such fuel and resulting refuse to and from the various motors throughout the body, namely, the internal, glandular and epidermic cells...
Namiko San, a Japanese opera with libretto and music by Aldo Franchetti, features Tamaki Miura, Japanese soprano. Little Mme. Miura's fingers are like daisy petals in careful array. Her voice carries a suggestion of tartness. Her movements are all nicely studied. Her role is that of a 16-year-old maiden of ancient Japanese legend, in love with a Buddhist monk from the white mountain tops, possessed by a tyrannous Daimio, lord of the low, broad acres...
...American Jews are complacent and well-fed. And in all general Jewish questions they imagine that they need nothing at all, that their role in Jewish life is only to give, to provide for the poor east-European Jews, who depend on their aid. A good deal of the blame for this state of things must be placed at the door of our envoys from eastern Europe, who have made a habit of going to America to collect money...