Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most tragic of all spectacles is that of a man with a magnificent idea which cannot succeed, because the world is not in a fit condition to receive it. The latest of these glorious failures is Mahatma Gandhi, who for the last few years has made the power of British rule in India tremble to its foundations. Now finally comes the news that he has withdrawn into retirement, broken in health and broken in spirit...
...search of material. Janet, the heroine of the play, is said to be the product of diligent study on the part of the co-authors in the character of the modern actress. The British Museum, on the other hand, has yielded the secrets of the unusual life and tragic death of Don John, Spanish Viceroy of California about 1640. The main plot, which incidentally contains numerous other plots, is the result of the meeting between these two. The complications become so frequent that the title, "Who's Who," is said to be a confession of the inability of the authors...
...Martin's Manor, the home on the end of Long Island that has belonged to the Fannings since the reign of King Charles II?the memory of a shipwreck that occurred more than ten years before the story begins?a rash debt undischarged?the narration of the tragic love story of another Cynthia Fanning and young Pedro da Gama that was acted two centuries previous in Tangier: out of these materials Grant Overton has written "a tale of the miracle we call love and of the commonplace we call fate." A most unusually good romance, it nevertheless has its defects...
Mario Chamlee tells a diverting story about his first performance as the Duke in Rigoletto at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan. The baritone role was sung by De Luca. Now, De Luca is a very merry person, as are many who excel in tragic parts. His round, snub-nosed face was made for mirth, especially its wide, thin-lipped mouth, which even in repose is curved like a jocose crescent. When De Luca sings, he grimaces in such a way that his mouth carries the leer of a laughing satyr...
Thanks to Mr. Edward Darney and Mr. Houston Richards, the Boston Stock Company has succeeded this week in transforming a rather serious comedy-drama into a completely funny farce. "East is West," as it is written, is clever and naively numerous, but originally it had some serious, even tragic moments; except for the opening scene on the "love boat", where impecunious Chinese fathers sell their extra daughters to close-fisted connoisseurs of female charms, and several passages in which Miss Bushnell, as Ming Toy, is given free rein, the St. James version is entirely comic, though certainly no less entertaining...