Word: ruthlessness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...about by court adjournments. Rex Cherryman, who is swiftly rising to preeminence among young actors, acts as brother and defending attorney for accused. The play (by Bayard Veiller, who wrote other tense melodramas, Within the Law, The Thirteenth Chair) moves more swiftly than the law but with all its ruthless directness. Its plot has the fascinating features of a front-page murder story. The Command to Love. The balance of power in international politics is not maintained by heartless artillery alone. Every French diplomat to the Spanish court, for instance, avails himself of the services of a seductive military attache...
Revelry pokes with ruthless imagination into the secret misfortunes of a President of the U. S. whom theatre-goers found it easy to think of as Warren Gamaliel Harding. The audience sees President "Easy" Markham (Actor Berton Churchill) as a stately tool of politicians who run the nation from a poker table stuck away in a private nook known as "the crow's nest." Because of his unwholesome faith in these cronies, he allows the White House to degenerate into what one of the characters described as an automat ("Because when you want to take something out, you just...
Resignation. Addressing himself to "The Chinese People" General Chiang reviewed in his resignation the initial brilliant success of the nationalist movement and its present heartbreaking disintegration. "Our revolution got into difficulties because of communism," declared General Chiang, and then mourned that his own ruthless anti-communist activities had been interpreted by many Nationalists as aggrandizement so that "My nationalist comrades subsequently in almost all cases lost confidence...
...lady-in-waiting to the late Queen Elizabeth of Rumania, better known by her pen name, "Carmen Silva." Queen Elizabeth, sympathizing with the lovers, permitted them to be constantly together. When news of this came to strict, arbitrary King Carol of Rumania, he broke off the affair by the ruthless step of banishing Mile. Vacarescu from Rumania, and later sending Queen Elizabeth into enforced residence in Germany. Last week Helene Vacarescu, overcome by grief at the death of Ferdinand I, left Paris to spend a period of mourning at Vichy, smart...
...Blood Ship. The captain is a ruthless desperado who murders and tortures those unfortunate enough to have been shanghaied aboard his Seven Seagoing vessel. When the crew finally rises in mutiny their leader is discovered to be the man whose wife and infant daughter the gory captain had stolen years ago. The daughter has grown up to be the one lovely thing aboard, so there is a hero...