Word: roles
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first professional performance in Boston of Ibsen's 'The Lady from the Sea'" is the boast of the Repertory Theatre for the present fortnight. Duse delighted in the role of Ellida, the lady from the sea. It required every lota of her energy and that of her company to carry the emotional strain which the playwright puts upon his puppets. And now Repertory advertises a professional performance...
...together. She is a refuge from the thoughts with which he paces the Embankment; from the ignominy of moments when he, a Minister, has nothing to do; from the whole importunate, crazy world in which he, tired, lonely, and rather fat old Sam Raingo, must play so exhausting a role...
...Clyde Griffiths' life that one is given the impression of snatchy revelations, skipped pages. Yet Patrick Kearney preserves with such care the causal sequence of the story that Mr. Dreiser's tragic skeleton, at least, is reproduced in true proportions. Morgan Farley throws himself wholeheartedly into the role of Clyde Griffiths, a poor boy who suffers the hard loneliness of being just beyond the pale of all for which he yearns. Unexpectedly, he discovers in Sondra Finchley, beautiful heiress, a sweetheart who will fulfill his dearest, vainest dreams. But in the poor factory girl, Roberta Alden...
Behind the vast banking enterprises of today stand figures of whom the public knows little, and cares less. They seldom appear individually even in their old role of archvillain, Publisher Hearst and ilk having grown discouraged by repeated demonstrations of Capitalistic probity. As the technique of their profession has become sensitized, bankers themselves have been increasingly obliged to hide their personal lights beneath institutional bushels...
Black Boy. Into the brutality of a prizefighter's camp strays a giant Negro, peaceable, with song in his heart. Paul Robeson, one-time (1918) all-American end, star basketball player, Phi Beta Kappa, of Rutgers College, more recently famed concert singer, enacts the role of the black boy. The white man's ways force him into the fight game. Swiftly the hungry straggler mounts to world championship, hangers-on, Fierce-Arrows, booze, kotowing, all the tinseled impedimenta. After two years of demoralizing opulence, double-crossed by his manager, disillusioned by the discovery that his idolized Irene...