Word: tales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moved the ephemeral Mrs. Moonlight to another playhouse, last week Producer Hopkins presented Alan Alexander Milne's Give Me Yesterday, produced in London in 1923, by the Harvard Dramatic Club in 1929, called Success until a few days before its New York premiere. It relates the pastel-tinted tale of the Rt. Hon. R. Selby Mannock, M. P. (Louis Calhern), who has decided that the world is too much with him, that it would be better to chuck everything and return to the irresponsible life of childhood...
Harun-al-Raschid, onetime ruler of Bagdad, made a practice of going about among his citizenry in disguise in order that he might govern them more sympathetically. Of his adventures he told many a tall tale...
...tale told by Ambassador Moore (peerless tale teller) shortly before his death...
Even in his poetry Walter de la Mare traffics in the spooky, but in spooks of a gossamer, indefinite kind. He understands that an effective ghost is never concrete. On the Edge contains many a tale that will give you the creeps, some that will merely set you musing. Some of them...
More interesting than the tale itself are the individual scenes which are handled with a finesse seldom seen in native productions. The opening sequence finds Albert singing to a group of tenement dwellers. There is an attention to detail and a depth of feeling which lends dramatic power to this prosaic gathering. At another time Albert is in his room, filling a shabby suitcase with little gifts for the girl he is to marry, but is interrupted by the arrival of the police. Here again is a trite situation, which becomes significant through deft and sympathetic handling...