Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Calif. Briefly, the play sets forth the adventures of Lazarus who was raised from the dead, taken to Rome, and there, after he has failed to provide Emperor Tiberius with renewed youth, burned at the stake. Lazarus is convinced that death is a misconception; men, he suggests, should forget sorrow and they should laugh, laugh, laugh, laugh, laugh, laugh. The actors in the play give a large part of their time to an illustration of this precept; at one point, in the Pasadena performance, laughter, concerted and solo, continues on the stage for four successive minutes...
There was no variation of critical opinion concerning the performance which Conductor Gabrilowitch presented. The chorus, dressed in black, and the soloists, with a proper effort at perfection, voiced the humble and victorious sorrow of the music they were singing. The tricky imitations which alone delighted its first auditors, the vocal echo of a cock's crowing, were of course not emphasized. The score had been shortened from four and a half hours of playing time to two and a half. Critics agreed that the cuts and emendations had been wisely effected...
...reporters wrote the story of Mlle. Roseray's inadequate demise with a tender and child-like sorrow. Their pathetic little fictions, when completed, were not consigned to wastebaskets by intelligent city editors; instead they were flapped onto front pages, otherwise almost bare of news, as is customary on metropolitan Monday mornings. The New York World had a picture spread. The Times had a front page and breakover. The American made it the day's feature. The tabloids, preparing to print pictures of a meal sack labeled "This is what the corpse of Mlle. Roseray looked like when...
...ringed and shadowy eyes of animals, more clearly than in the secretive countenance of man, is expressed the mystery, the dark sorrow of existence. Of all beasts, dogs are perhaps the most melancholy in their looks; of all dogs, the slouching basset hound is the most sad. Of all basset hounds, none is more woebegone, more tragic than a certain basset hound puppy. Last week he sat nuzzling his weak chin into the loose bib of flesh which an arbitrary heredity has draped around his neck. In the kennels, at Huntington, L. I., of Gerald M. Livingston, his forlorn yapping...
...surreptitious doings which further emphasized the mercenary aspect of dog shows. Someone administered a dose of arsenic to Hi-Point Monoplane, prize collie puppy, owned by one William J. Burgess. So potent was the dose, that Hi-Point Monoplane died a day or so later, to the rage, sorrow, and financial loss of his owner. Someone else fixed a beady and covetous eye on Warily Gang Leader, champion wire-haired fox terrier, kennel mate and spouse to parexcellent Talavera Margaret. While the dog was being shown by her owner, this individual crept to the box wherein Warily Gang Leader...