Word: swanning
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...Life. No picture could be half so dismal as that of the office of a humorous magazine where the staff feels that it isn't considered funny enough. Hollow with chagrin, wild with despair, sounded the laughter in the studios of Life as the old staff prepared their swan-song for the presses. A shadow seemed to lie all through that final number, with its reprint of favorite drawings from the spent twelvemonth...
...news-sheets telling how "the Dean of the American Stage is working day and night, transforming his theatre into a veritable Hades," how "Belasco's version of Ferenc Molnar's Mima costs $300,000 to present," and lastly how this "lavish production will be Belasco's swan song." So a typical Belasco audience, in limousines, came to see Lenore Ulric in a play which contained devils, scenes of passionate affection and a huge machine for producing evil on the earth...
...incredible, the play was chiefly remarkable for the stage devices it contained; stage devices, since the invention of the cinema, are less potent than they used to be to evoke illusions and it was in displaying his unique skill in their construction that Producer Belasco really sang his swan song...
...final personal swan-song was: "I am just as anxious to see them [Democratic principles] succeed as I was when the party honored me with the nomination, and with all the vigor that I can command...
...leave of the electorate one more last time. People had wondered what he would say-whether he would appeal for funds to pay for the effort he had led;* whether he would have a last fling at "influences" which may have beaten him; whether it would be a personal swan-song or a parting battle-tucket to the Democracy...