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Stamped, cheered and sat spellbound while Premier Briand delivered one of the most moving speeches of his career, urging ratification for the Locarno Treaties. His words...
Robert Edmond Jones, who bows only to Norman-Bel Geddes as a native creator of stage pictures, did the settings. There were many of them and they were of surpassing beauty. There were many moments in the play when the audience sat spellbound by the magnificence of the writing. The acting of Walter Huston in the principal role was admirable...
Robert G. Ingersoll was straight and tall; he had a rolling voice and the gestures of a king; words, cadences, images, poured from him like an endless golden cable unwinding from his mouth; when he addressed a jury he could make the twelve spellbound dolts do whatever he told them, and he often used his genius for the weak, the defenseless, the depraved. After his Convention speech, he could have held political office; men in the Administration asked him politely would he like to be Minister to Germany ? Attorney General? Would he, sometime, care to run for President? Said...
Exodus. Brigham spellbound the leaderless city, seized command, sold the Mormon temple to a French Communist, led his people a dire trek westward to escape U. S. jurisdiction. By the time they reached Utah, the U. S. had taken that territory from Mexico, but Brigham settled there notwithstanding...
...Troy. Armored knights spurred in quest of the Holy Grail. Lear went raving over the heath. A tramp steamer careened across the Indian Ocean shearing spray off her bows, and the dawn came up like thunder.... And on the hard wooden chairs sat hundreds of boys, young barbarians, fascinated, spellbound, many if not most of them realizing, perhaps for the first time in their lives the delight of great literature, the majesty of the English tongue and the might of the human imagination...