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...would be used by Mrs. O'Grady, the keeper of a petshop, who was really a man and the leader of a band of thieves. Her grandson, whom customers observed cuddled up in a perambulator, was really a sly and wicked midget. It was unpleasant to imagine the shrill, false pipe in which such a monstrosity might have whispered to his cronies. As a talkie, The Unholy Three is less hair-raising because its sounds have become explicit. Lon Chancy still impersonates Professor Echo, a ventriloquist in a carnival who, when he turns thief, capitalizes his talents to make...
...Nanking ("Southern Capital"), where the Nationalist Government which purports to rule all China is established (TIME, Oct. 29, 1928), slender, shrill President Chiang Kai-shek insisted that Peking's real name is the one he gave it two years ago, "Peiping," which means "Northern Peace...
...away the Tsar and the past, Futurist Mayakovsky appeared triumphant at Leon Trotsky's right hand. Like Rudyard Kipling, with whom Russians compare him, Vladimir Mayakovsky was at his best as a war poet. More than six feet tall, hairy-chested, huge-voiced, he toured Russia with lean, shrill Trotsky, the organ- izing genius who created the Red Army -today largest on earth.-To the soldiers the statesman would speak in his curt, compelling voice. Then, towering up from nowhere, the poet would take the platform, roar out his latest barrack-room ballad, put fight into the then ragged...
...Only yesterday the Mahatma said." she cried in her shrill voice, " 'Women should play a greater part in our non-violent fight than men, for women are the incarnation of non-violence!' We women must go into the forests and uproot all the palm trees. Toddy* is the ruin of Mother India...
...beginning the Man lies prostrate in the darkness with a monstrous batlike creature crouched on top of him. Then at the climax a piercing yellow fills the stage as the storm comes up, symbolic of the Man's premonition of impending doom. Despite the complex, sometimes shrill chromatic combinations, Schönberg seemed subdued and civilized compared afterward with naked, uncouth Stravinsky. The stage production was directed by Rouben Mamoulian. The settings and costumes were designed by famed Robert Edmond Jones...