Word: taling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long before the conclusion of Act II when Antoine (Ronald Squire), the maitre d'hotel and god of Playwright Edouard Bourdet's machine, explains that he is going to walk home, not for the exercise but for a breath of fresh air. By that time the overlong tale of a canny matriarch has palled. Mme Leroy-Gomez (Helen Haye) raises her two elegant sons to prey on women, undergoes many a humorous travail keeping their shoulders to the wheel. One, married to a rich Argentine, almost loses his wife because of an infatuation for a penniless Slav...
...Wozzeck will be given by the Philadelphians in Manhattan Nov. 24. At its U. S. première in Philadelphia last year many a critic pronounced it the most important opera since Pélleas et Mélisande. It tells a sordid tale of murder done a woman who preferred a swaggering drum-major to a downtrodden, pasty-faced soldier. Composer Berg's score is as powerful as it is radical...
...TIME I see tale of two banks and one Preserved Fish who was President of Bank of America in 1812. My great-great-grandfather was Preserved Fish originally from Vermont. My great-grandfather was Leonard Fish...
What promised during the first net to be a one woman play with Catherine Doucot bearing the burden and the honors, last night developed into as pleasant a comedy as one could wish. Rachel Crothers has, in this tale of a "lady from Dubuque" now at the Colonial, concocted a story lacking somewhat in originality, but one which is considerably enlivened by a capable cast, and the exquisite nuances of the Iowa cornfield which Miss Doucet scatters so lavishly in her role of Emmie. One never for a moment believes in the reality of this Dulsy of a later...
...STORY OF JULIAN-Susan Ertz- Appleton ($2.50).* If Susan Ertz were not more interested in people than in the situations they get themselves into, she might have adorned this tale with several morals. As it is, she leaves you to draw your own conclusions...