Word: soul
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jekyll" at the University Theatre was a matter of live interest to this Playgoer. For no sooner had lurid posters shown forth the face of Hyde than Stevenson's story came back from early schooldays with all its creeping horrors. It was indeed a tale to harrow up the soul, freeze the young blood; and one day a very young reviewer squirmed in his theatre seat as John Barrymore darkened the screen with the long shadow of Hyde. Not even a break in the film and an "End of Reel Three" sign could dull the terror of that figure...
...drives a Ford roadster, and merely says "My God!" when irritated. Two years ago he decided to stop acting and become a director. He made five or six pictures, including the successful Madame X, before he was tempted by the fat, bibulous part of Stephen Ashe in A Free Soul...
...Schubert sits at the open casement. It is Toni Hofer, writing the last measures of an operetta. On the piano, lilting melodies lie in manuscript, but the one crowning air will not come. The play is dead without a dance, a Viennese walse to give it soul...
Secretary Hurley: I'm the best friend the Philippines have got. . . . Every sentiment in my soul supports the idea that there should be no domination of man over...
...Gingerbread Castle for Wheatsworth Cracker Co. and the New York School for Social Research, his most successful building to date. Between times he keeps up with his stage work, designs furniture, lace curtains, trunks for Hartman, an automobile for the New Era Motors, and dress fabrics. A convivial soul,'he can work 16 hours a day and still find time for champagne suppers, Viennese songs, beautiful women. His wife is a New York Beegle. He keeps eight shepherd dogs in the country, and gives two Christmas parties a year complete with tinseled trees, lebkuchen and. champagne...