Word: tiberius
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...judged fit for public office, he studied history and planned to write the true story of his family. His father Drusus. his brother Germanicus both came to suspiciously sudden ends. When the good Augustus died (by his wife's poison) and was succeeded by the vicious Tiberius, Claudius lived in observant retirement. Under the rule of the madman Caligula he found himself in the unenviable position of middle-aged court butt...
...North, until at last in 147 the eagle cast its shadow over the far flung frontiers of the world. In its last war of this period a young man smiled at his commander, whom the Romans called Africans, and scaled the walls of Carthage. That young man was Tiberius Gracchus, one of a long and famous line. In after years he was elected a Tribune of the people and he became the world's first great democrat. But democracy rang less magnificently in the ears of the people than it does today. Tiberius was scoffed at and rebuked until...
...autumn, the iridescent color minglings of eighty seated thousands form the tableau at New Haven. It appears new and of certain splendor. Yet the first roar that greets the raising of the grate for the two opposing teams dispels the note novelty. Echoed into mind are the arenas of Tiberius, the lists of Provence...
...able efforts of the Pasadena Players. The mechanics of the production were gigantic; there were vast numbers of actors, 400 costumes and 300 masks of all kinds. Irving Pichel, deep-voiced and deliberate, made a splendid Lazarus. Gilmor Brown, who organized the Pasadena Players some ten years ago, played Tiberius and acted as director. His handling of mob scenes, much after the methods of Max Reinhardt, was always effective...
...pageant than a play, Lazarus Laughed, by famed Eugene O'Neill, received its first performance last week in Pasadena, Calif. Briefly, the play sets forth the adventures of Lazarus who was raised from the dead, taken to Rome, and there, after he has failed to provide Emperor Tiberius with renewed youth, burned at the stake. Lazarus is convinced that death is a misconception; men, he suggests, should forget sorrow and they should laugh, laugh, laugh, laugh, laugh, laugh. The actors in the play give a large part of their time to an illustration of this precept; at one point...