Word: sermonic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...politicians, newspaper owners, Algonquinesque writers, Wall Street, society. It is all very bitter; but there is action, noise and color, settings by Robert Edmond Jones, staccato staging by Richard Boleslavsky. These first two acts are the outstanding curiosity of the current Manhattan season. The third act is a tedious sermon showing that happiness is just around the corner for those who renounce gold & greed. Author Pollock calls the whole thing a "verbal cartoon...
...ideals, George Cohan has promoted or permitted a measly interlude, a song of which the title and refrain are "Personality." Possession. Edgar Selwyn is not a playwright who takes his comedy too lightly. Indeed, in this play of gloomy wedlock and ill-starred infidelities, he preaches a sad sermon with his quips and makes Margaret Lawrence, who usually seems bearable if not entrancing, a monstrous brute of conjugal ferocities. When her bond-broking husband (Walter Connolly) blankets himself with another lady, the wife follows, gnashing threats of duty. All the forces of law and decency seem allied with the dreadful...
...Coolidge-"What was the sermon about...
Evangelist William Ashley Sunday last week preached a "shortstop" sermon against Governor Smith's presidential candidacy. Theme: "Crooks, cork screwers, bootleggers, whisky politicians; they shall not pass-even to the White House." Place: Ocean Grove, N. J., Methodist seashore resort...
...fourth row of pews. As the catafalque was laid before the altar, priests were chanting the De Profundis. Solemn Requiem Mass. Funeral sermon. "Death is not a parting, but a meeting." No eulogy. "Resurrectio sum et vita...