Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inimitable veteran of the boards, James Walker, who is playing the injured and innocent mayor with a heart of gold ever ready at his tongue's tip. Supporting him is his brother in the traditional role of the doctor whose sole remedy is to bleed his patients whether they suffer from indigestion or from starvation. In addition to the Mayor and his brother there are a number of democratic gentlemen who have been especially hired for the present performance to provide the incidental music and the off-stage noises. The direction of this comedy is in the hands of Samuel...
...life she would like to be able to look back on. Ruth Chatterton, as one of the richest women in the world, resists her hero (George Brent) to be true to her husband (John Miljan) who is opportunely snared by another woman (Adrienne Dore). Miss Chatterton is free to suffer a little, agreeably, and say the right, the irreproachable things to her husband's hussy. She gets a divorce and is gallant by transatlantic telephone. Men try to forget her but cannot. She fights against her better instincts but all she has are better instincts. When her ex-husband...
...Asia, from the polar ice, the plains of Tanganyika, the primeval forests of Borneo. Lions groan and tigers moan. Elephants trumpet like thunder. Wolves howl, hyenas laugh, monkeys screech. But all cry the same thing: "How long must we remain captive? What have we done that we should suffer so horribly? Why are we here? Why?" Sleepy humans do not answer, do not even hear...
...political prisoners should be planned with a full recognition of this condition, and such action should avoid antagonizing the public until every alternative has been tried. Miss Berkman's plight will henceforth become identified, in the minds of the majority, with impetuous and hot-headed demonstrations, and will suffer accordingly...
...Blue Bird (S. Hurok, producer) is a medley of Russian vaudeville under the droll and genial mastership of Yascha Yushny. It is the sort of thing that moonfaced Nikita Balieff and Morris Gest first brought to the U. S. in 1922 as the Chauve-Souris and does not suffer greatly by this comparison. Mr. Yushny is much the same sort of master of ceremonies as Balieff. Witness the introduction he gives to a Boyar dance number, concluding with the sly information that he did the scenery for that act himself. When the curtain parts a plain velvet drop is revealed...