Word: tom-tom
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...loquacious ones ever be a huge brown Argentine with a mane like a privet hedge? Luis Angel Firpo, will he ever tell unbelievers how he was "cheated" out of the boxing crown of South America? Last week, he lost that crown. One Quintin Romero, Chilean, has long thumped his tom-tom, shouted that he would have Luis' blood. The South American Boxing Commission heeded his beatings, his shoutings. Holding that the Wild Bull of the Pampas had not answered within a reasonable time this Chile-bean's challenge, they took away his title, proclaimed Quintin Romero...
...inviting Red Indians into his church (St. Mark's-in-the-Bomverie) and having them dance an aboriginal fandango before the uncurtained altar. Os-Ke-Non-Ton, the Running Deer, took the lectern in feathered headdress and hailed the elements in his native tongue. The organ beat a tom-tom. Incense burned. Dr. Guthrie explained: "If you think you can treat religion like a bug and put it under a microscope, you are wrong. Religion can be found alive only in experience...
Each of the scones in the forest is perfectly timed, beautifully set, and complete in itself. It is regrettable that the imaginary ship's hold, one of the best scenes, completely falls to "get across" to a Boston audience. The ceaseless beat of the tom-tom is a diversion of remarkable assistance to the dramatist. The whole is not a pleasant afternoon's diversion, but with the single exception of "Liliom", Boston has had no play this year as well worth seeing...