Word: themes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Appropriate title for the author's departure from the safe realm of mystery and romance into the dangerous realism of thought and emotion?This Strange Adventure. Any woman?every woman? is the theme; but the particular woman Mrs. Rinehart chooses is a delicate soul, and what little spirit she has is crushed and twisted by circumstance. The proverbially gay '90s are sufficiently Victorian to give "Missie" a sense of duty toward her elders?always she defers to them, always she forfeits her own happiness. First there was her father upon whom she and the rest of the household danced attendance...
Lucky Boy (Tiffany-Stahl). George Jessel's clear, vigorous singing of three theme songs better than the average prevents his first sound-picture from being as tiresome as you would expect a picture to be in which 1) a night-club entertainer, getting a telegram telling of his mother's illness, sings a song entitled "My Mother's Eyes"; 2) a girl is saved from embarrassment in a matter concerning a jewel not given her by her husband; 3) the entertainer makes a hit on Broadway. Better advised on technique than narrative, Tiffany-Stahl, a comparatively small...
...world-speech. George Washington, "best business man of his day," was its occasional theme. Its substantive text was U. S. foreign relations. In them President Coolidge found much satisfaction. President Washington, he imagined, would also have been well pleased. Said President Coolidge...
...most people have made up their minds one way or another about the virgin birth of Jesus Christ. Yet so potent is the subject that shrewd Evangelist William Ashley ("Billy") Sunday has chosen it as the main theme of his latest barnstorming tour. In Elyria, Ohio, he gospel-shouted last week: "God made Adam and Eve without human agencies. So he certainly could create Jesus in a supernatural manner...
...theme of the show is based on the college life at Peckwater College. The athletes of this mythical school play an important part in depicting the life there. The comedy lead is played by an ex-prize fighter, while the climax of the performance comes during the baseball game between Peckwater and Crawford. A unique method is to be used to portray this game on the stage, according to the directors of the play...