Word: silents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Anyone who is so accustomed to seeing harrowing mystery plays that he is able to sleep better after seeing such a play than before doing so should enjoy the production at the Copley Theatre this week. Although distinctly different from the usual run, "The Silent Answer" is no play for one whose nerves are not in the best of health. However, there is enough comic relief strewn here and there in the steps of Annie, the maid, to make a worthwhile evening for many...
Altogether "The Silent Answer" is a different kind of mystery play, well done for the most part...
...House, with its 18 clippers for which no beneficial use has yet been found, might lend one for use in the Memorial Hall tower until Major Apted's wishes come true, and the practical jokers give back the stolen property. For the present, however, Memorial Hall will remain as silent as it has for the past nine days...
...outburst as typical of its author as it is contrary to the character of the present presidential campaign, Alfred E. Smith, speaking before Wednesday's Jefferson Day dinner, voiced an opinion which has recently depressed the silent Democratic leaders. Aroused by Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt's radio address of last Thursday, Mr. Smith branded its utterances as a demagogic appeal to the passions of the "little fellow at the bottom of the economic pyramid." Casting aside his role of inactive candidate, he promises irreconcilable opposition to any man who attempts to utilize dangerous class prejudice as a means to nomination...
...Jefferson Day bombshell is therefore to be regarded as far more significant than the ordinary internal distensions of the Democratic party. It has been generally felt that in the event of a Roosevelt nomination, Mr. Smith would remain compliantly silent. But in taking this new stand, he has swung his forces irrevocably into the opposition. The assurance that without his support in the North and East no candidate can carry a united party so necessary for election will weigh heavily in the plans of party managers. By an artful maneuver, Mr. Smith has injected the element of precariousness into...