Word: scene
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...down some of the more intimate aspects of the life of the day, and has succeeded to a certain extent. If the reader himself has a vivid imagination, he may put Mr. Sherwin's pictures in his mind's eye and build up out of them a fine scene of rum and riot, women and song...
...admit that Olga Baclanova, in this instance, acted badly. The wife of an Englishman in Africa, she flirted with her husband's friends and finally with his brother. Clive Brook does not kill himself after all because he finds that Mme. Baclanova's perhaps necessary death in the last scene was not caused by the poison he put in her lime-juice but by a snakebite. Throughout this silly, badly directed, exciting picture Mme. Baclanova depicts an unpleasant character by wearing beautiful clothes, telling love stories, singing in a dramatic soprano voice that was once justly celebrated in Moscow. Silliest...
...papers treated the campaign as the most important news of the week. Reviewing the depressing scene in the New York Times last week, famed Journalist and War Correspondent Sir Philip Gibbs said...
...twin mining province of Tacna to Peru, with a six-million-dollar payment by Chile to Peru to boot-all this had been virtually agreed upon by the two countries prior to President Hoover's interest in the problem or Ambassador Moore's arrival on the scene. The ambassadorial smile in the picture was purely ambassadorial. Why he wanted to go to little Peru after lordly Spain remained a mystery and a secret, except to a few well-informed Peruvians not yet ready to give complete details...
Playwright Kirkland's scene is the Alton House, St. Louis. The year is 1849. The story as he tells it grows sluggish in the time required of a three-act play. This is mainly due to two long soliloquies by Frankie in the second...