Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plays are A.A. Milne's "The Man in the Bowler Hat," an old-fashioned melodrama, which offers everything from a heroine in a strapless gown to a villain, and Essex Dane's "Tuberoses." which tells a tragic episode concerning three sisters...
...toll: first, two who had been killed in jumps, then another who died of a head injury in the hospital. Six more were missing and for them hope soon died. When the count was completed, nine were listed as dead, 25 injured. For Kenyon College it was the most tragic week in its 125-year history...
Once he became undisputed master of Drury Lane Theater, Garrick made improvements. He scrapped some of the more outrageous revisions of Shakespeare (though he lacked the courage to restore the tragic ending of Lear), and he insisted on sincerity in performances. Garrick's actors found themselves merged with their roles-even though the identification might sometimes become too complete. Once when Garrick spoke the line, "There's blood upon thy face," the poor fellow opposite was so startled that he flubbed his lines and cried out, "Is there...
...Tragic Hunt" begins with some money being delivered by a government agent to a farming village in order that it may pay for harvesting equipment and rent. The money is stolen by a gang of desperate, unemployed Italians, one of whom happens to be a veteran of a German prison camp. The remainder of the film deals with the citizens' chase after the robbers for the subsidy money in an attempt to save their first post-war crop. The theme of the film is the plight of the unemployed veteran in a defeated, starving, and bankrupt country, and the ease...
...perhaps quibbling to pick at "Tragic Hunt" in the face of our Hollywood output: it is only the recent Italian standard of excellence that justifies this. At any rate, it shouldn't be missed by the connoisseur...