Word: themes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...High Road. Had Author Frederick Lonsdale chosen to write a true and biting comedy instead of an exceptionally witty tragedy he might have made The High Road an even more exciting reiteration of an old theme than he did. His story is that of an actress loved by an heir; like the tortoise in the fable, the actress is the winner...
Heavy Traffic. Many are the theatregoers who demand, for their lightest entertainment, an exposition, bright with epigrams, not of mirthful innocence but of adultery. Thus the theme of Arthur Richman's ill-illumined comedy of the Park Avenue elite is haughty but it's vice. The lady of his piece is married to an urbane cuckold who regards benignantly her indiscretions with a pianist and financier. When he grows tired of her promiscuous activities, she evades his attempt to catch her. At the end, however, trapped with poetic justice, she falls prey to the advances of his private...
Evangelist William Ashley Sunday last week preached a "shortstop" sermon against Governor Smith's presidential candidacy. Theme: "Crooks, cork screwers, bootleggers, whisky politicians; they shall not pass-even to the White House." Place: Ocean Grove, N. J., Methodist seashore resort...
...fine figures for the drama. Their emotions, less obscure and tangled than those of Caucasians, are also less controlled. Theirs, too, is a tragic and extraordinary position in a white man's world. In his admirable play, which won the Longmans, Green Drama League prize, it is this theme, not the entirely black disasters and delights of Porgy, which Ransom Rideout builds upon...
Death. A solemn Royal theme was Death. Every official flag in Sweden went to half mast for Prince Friedrich II, 71, abdicated Grand Duke of Baden in Germany, uncle of the reigning Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg, and brother of Her Majesty Queen Victoria of Sweden...