Word: screaming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...starched shirts and diamond dignity. The demeanor of flawless respectability which has so often served able Actor Arliss well now plays him false. He finds it difficult to add writhing to his words as they eject ". . . and spit upon my Jewish gaberdine." He finds it difficult to scream "My daughter, my ducat...
...birds at some unseen rumpus in the air dart from tree to tree, members of the New York Stock Exchange last week dashed from post to post in restless frenzy to buy, to sell. When one day was done and there had subsided the wild scream of men shouting diversely, they found that they had dealt with 3,228,300 shares...
...Caesar, Mr. Thaddeus presents the following picture: "Sword in one hand, the incendiary torch in the other, he strides across Gaul, his thin-lipped mouth twisted into a smile as the eagles of his legions scream false promises to the natives.... But legend has chosen to whitewash the tawdry walls of Rome, so that it is Caesar, the far seeing statesman, rather than Caesar the bandit-adventurer, who is in the habit of stepping forward immaculate to take curtain calls as one of history's heroes and supermen...
...heroes. The people crave a new "Red" Grange. None has turned up. This year there are Myles Lane at Dartmouth, Bruce Caldwell at Yale, Oosterbaan at Michigan, Wilson at West Point, Flanagan at Notre Dame, Drury at Southern California and others. But no one at whom the mob may scream: "Long Live the King"; not one yet good enough to get a cinema contract...
Back of this gentle fable is fashioned a magnificent background of race humor, pathos, song and hot-blooded simplicity. Dice click, spirituals sigh and scream, superstition stalks and little children chatter. For this background the piece is chiefly notable. The play itself is not a masterpiece. The acting is brilliantly accounted for by a troupe seized from the dusky depths of the vagrant Negro theatre...