Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Whispering Wires" does not reach quite the high points of "The Bat", but it has the merit of never lagging, of wasting no time at all and of affording all the excitement that one actual murder and one near-murder can stir up in present-day barbaric theatre goers...
During the recess, there were few concerts of great interest in Boston. Friday evening, December 21, Mr. George Copeland gave a characteristically excellent concert in Jordan Hall. Handicapped by a very poor piano, he was able to stir his audience to real enthusiasm. Few pianists, if any, can play French and Spanish music as he can. If he considers remaining in Boston, his cordial welcome should encourage...
...Business Widow. Concentrate for a moment on this title. Does not the image of a lovely wife, pining at home for the affection which an impercipient husband had diverted to his bills and invoices, immediately arise? And does not memory distinctly stir with recollection of numerous encounters with this problem in the Theatre? It does and it has. Furthermore, the wife follows dramatic tradition slavishly by winning him back with jealousy. The possibilities of this plot petered out some time ago. To rejuvenate it some ingenious genius was required to put his brains upon the rack. Unhappily the German authors...
...Sunday Dr. Leighton Parks dramatically voiced the opinion of the great mass of college men, of undergraduates certainly and probably of many graduates, when he took up the fight against the pastoral letter of certain bishops, which has created such a stir in church circles during the last few days, Removing the vestments of a priest, and putting on an academic gown, he took his stand for liberty of thought within the church; for the right to interpret and to preach the Christian religion in a way consistent with the dictates of conscience and of reason. Dr. Parks does...
Lionel Barrymore portrays the clown who could stir the stream of life with rippling laughter for everyone except himself. Mr. Barrymore's recently acquired wife, Irene Fenwick, is Simonetta, the divinity whose love for someone else prompts him to end his life with the greatest gesture of grotesquery?suicide. Ian Keith plays the "someone else" and does it with a fine fervor and distinction...