Word: symbolical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pearl of Great Price. Released, at last, from an eight year entanglement with red tape, The Pearl of Great Price reveals itself in the theatre, a cheaply glamorous morality spectacle. The Pearl, symbol of maidenhood, is sole heritage of a pulchritudinous orphan, Pilgrim. With zest, relish and a cast of two hundred, the production smacks its lips over the struggles of Greed, Idle Rich, Lust, Shame and the rest, to possess the dainty maiden's treasure. In the course of an artful procession of temptations, Pilgrim, after standing naked for one coy half-second, despatches Lust. The court returns...
...character the better in the cast of the new play. Miss Tobin plays the part of the young woman in distress who happens in on a misogynists house party, and she plays it as if she were All Women, or Beauty in Distress, or some other such all embracing symbol. And Genevieve Tobin is not much good at symbolism. She is too much herself. It may be true that any women try to be all things to all men, but it takes no more than a Genevieve to prove that some of them fail...
...after this long paired of hardship only one mil-owner and he a minor on has acceded to the reasonable requests of the textile workers. The strike has come to be a symbol of the suffering of the industrial workers not in Passaic alone but in a thousand and one cities throughout the country...
...from Philadelphia to Lancaster and the Conestoga country over the Old Lancaster Pike. When this road, the pioneer turnpike of the continent, was extended westward over the Alleghenies into Steubenville and the Ohio Lands, the Conestoga Wagon went with it and so became a symbol of the westward march of the pioneer...
...touches of spotless white, the whole toned down to harmony by the austere background of a white granite pile. Among the robe wearers were 40 university, college and seminary presidents, including two women, Mary E. Woolley (Mt. Holyoke), and Ellen F. Pendleton (Wellesley). In a gown a cardinal hue, symbol of University of Glasgow honors, was the Reverend Henry Sloane Coffin, D. D. (N. Y. U., Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Princeton, Glasgow), who was there to be inaugurated as President. Whence came he to this post of eminence and ecclesiastical danger...