Word: shadowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...play, entitled, by the way, "The Gray Shadow", take place in England, and has something or other to do with an attempted insurance fraud. Thanks to three or four obviously arch-villains who intermittently sneak about the dark corners of the stage the suspense is kept until the final unveiling of the Gray Shadow at the end of Act Three. Humor is provided by the village constable, and Joe Pepper the Taxi Driver, while Love is rather cursorily introduced by Diana Trent, the Ward of one of the villains, and Martin Scott, an inspector from the insurance company when...
...Gray Shadow" is certainly not for the playgoer who takes his drama seriously, but for the average spectator who is willing to fail into the blood-and-thunder spirit of the thing, this play ought to prove entertaining enough...
...representatives to conform to this change of heart must be attributed to the incurable timidity of the political mind. Having once gone on record in favor of Prohibition, most of them lack courage to recognize the inevitable, and they take comfort in the hope that economic issues will over-shadow all others in the coming elections. Possibly the more realistic among them, hearing the applause for the wets which burst from the gallery, felt a less purblind confidence in the issue. The hedgers and straddlers of a dead decade are now once more on the fence, in a different sense...
...Memphis courtroom last week stood Very Rev. Israel Harding Noe, popular dean of smart St. Mary's Episcopal Cathedral. Pallid and ascetic, Dean Noe was painfully embarrassed. All Memphis was privy to the domestic secrets of the deanery in the Cathedral's shadow. Mrs. Ellen Morris Camblox Noe began a divorce suit against her husband last year, charging that for three years he had lived a separate life in their house (TIME...
...particular college forege the benefits of sitting under an outstanding teacher in another college. The destiny of the two systems, the House Plan, and of the experimental colleges of the future, would seem to lead them to a common ground, where the House Plan will have at least the shadow of autonomy, and the splendid isolation of Dr. Meiklejohn's colleges will be modified...