Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Best scene was probably that of the slave auction. In other jungle scenes unrealistic lighting detracted from the net effect. In general, however, the play was very good. A short production by itself, the entire effect was lengthened by the addition of an uncalled for pre-curtain nightmare. Its elimination is the most outstanding improvement which night be suggested...
...Army, Terry proceeded naturally from horseback and post life to West Point and (as he assumed) a commission in the cavalry. Most of the boys who entered with him (in 1907) were frightened strangers to the Point and to the Army, prepared to slave and die to stay in both. Allen knew West Point as well as he knew the Army: for four years (1892-96) his father had taught philosophy there...
...want to mention that the Glee Club is really coming along; apparently most of last week's converts are still sticking. Dr. Houghton is giving the boys a workout and if you think singing isn't work, go over some night and watch them slave away. The repertoire is gradually expanding and everyone seems quite happy about the whole affair...
...Slave of the Senses. Pola's first starring role was in Love and Passion (or Slave of the Senses'), which she wrote, directed, and produced herself with a secondhand movie camera in her own Warsaw apartment. Pola claims that the picture so interested Max Reinhardt that he brought her to Germany in 1917. She achieved stardom overnight in Carmen and Passion (with Emil Jannings...
...three great developments charged the intellectual atmosphere with incredible tension, and made each book, and each review of each book, a matter of strategy, vigilance, scandal. One was the recognition by America that its literature was good. The experience was like the sudden awakening of an ex-slave to the knowledge of his freedom, his worth and his inheritance. Griswold's anthology contained Longfellow, Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Lowell, Whittier. (Griswold slighted the South...