Word: soliloquy
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clumsily treated situation of an iron-sinewed, low-born trader who is in love with a beautiful, cultured woman. Ralph Ince and Aileen Pringle do as well as they can in these parts. Silliest shot: a ruined speculator committing suicide by jumping through an office window after a brief soliloquy...
...operators had thus far entertained some 10,000 persons, had profited $100,000 over a single weekend. No liquors were served on board of what the tickets described as "the Dancing and Eating Boat," but the games, said the United Press, were sadly crooked. A Johanna Smith soliloquy, delivered aboard her at 3 a. m. by Louis Wolheim, famed as hard-boiled "Captain Flagg" in What Price Glory? and now a cinemactor, was reported as follows: "The roulette is bad, the poker, twenty-one and chuck-a-lick worse, but the prize albatross these guys hang around a neck...
Brilliantly translated by Herman Bernstein and brilliantly acted by three members of the cast-Harold Johnsrud, Jules Artfeld and Antoinette Crawford-the icy despair of The Waltz of the Dogs is indeed produced according to the author's recipe. Its somewhat antiquated use of soliloquy and its droning tragedy, unencumbered by contemporary fashions in plot construction, make it a sour entertainment for play-goers drilled in a less difficult tradition. Its sadness is serious and harsh and not the relaxative kind old women...
Among the other efforts which, whatever their particular merits may or may not be, are unquestionably up to the Advocate standard are "Soliloquy" by C. D. Stillman. "Another 'Illustrious Defunct,'" by A. T. Burr, and practically of the book and play reviews. In book reviewing, the Advocate seems to have found a field especially well suited to the exercise of its talents...
...husband. But the thread of evidence is only one of the strands drawn through the astonishing tapestry of this play. It tries to reproduce the effect that such a murder might really have upon a small group of assorted polite persons. The play opens with a fifteen minute soliloquy from Harvey Bell Smith who is annoyed because his dinner guests are late; when Fifi Sands arrives, last of them all, she is hysterical with happiness because she will at last be able to divorce her rich husband and marry Owen Macdonald. When her son comes in to say that John...