Word: roped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seems to adhere to some firm, intangible tradition, so does their choice of plays. To dig for little bits of dramatic gold buried by distinguished writers is a fine ideal for dramatic groups, but Leverett has perhaps over-extended the tradition. Since only one of their current trio--The Rope--has much strength, even if the acting were a bit less over-eager, two-thirds of the evening would remain interesting rather than intense or stimulating...
...Rope, which comes last in the triple bill, comes first in impact. It is the tale of a feeble-minded old man and of the noose he hangs up for his prodigal son to hang himself with if he should return. The prodigal does return, but does not hang himself--which seems too bad, because his ironic old half-wit father has tied his hidden fortune to the far end of the hangman's rope. Why he should want to help his detestable son instead of killing him is unexplained, but he fails totally. So, in a most frustrating manner...
Traded Tiara. Diana's mother was a legendary beauty, Blanche Oelrichs Thomas, also known as Michael Strange in her spare-time incarnations as poet and author. It was in Carder's, where she was trading her diamond tiara for a rope of matched pearls, that she met Actor John Barrymore-"the most beautiful man that ever lived," said she, "like a young archangel." But their unangelic love affair was like "a tennis match in Hell." More than three years later, Blanche Thomas, defying the warning cries of her friends and the exigencies of the Social Register, divorced...
...Mouth, written when he was 54, first brought him broad recognition as a major writer, who worked to the end despite a rare, fatal nerve disease which struck (1954) and progressively paralyzed him; in Oxford, England. Propped up in his wheelchair or bed, with his arm supported by a rope, his pen tied to his hand, he faced death calmly, worked until his limbs were useless, then dictated until his power of speech was gone...
...Mexican vaquero, who found the hungry black buster where he wailed indignantly in the cold and wet, and carried him back to finish his first night in a warm bed. Gitano (gypsy) the boy called him. The two were inseparable, but very little else was safe within a rope's length of that savage young fighter. He charged the chickens, butted the bucket, larked with the laundry; when the time for branding came, it took seven good men to catch the black yearling and four to hold him down...