Word: treading
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Years ago Nazimova scored an astonishing success in this part, and after her have come many lesser steps to tread in her footsteps, but when one sees it, one can't help wondering how "Hedda Gabler" could ever be a popular vehicle. In the first place it is far too long for the stiff-backed seats of a theatre, taking over four hours in presentation. Moreover the incidents are thin and the action slight. Thirdly one feels continually that Ibsen is speaking from the stage and not from life, for his characters have a stilted unnatural manner of expressing themselves...
...playwright is, of course, occupied tearing the trappings from war. He has no sympathy for the tinsel tongue of trumpets nor the romantic tread of heroes. He knows that wounds hurt and that food along the fighting line is not always perfectly prepared. Therefore he spins a love story, puts part of it in uniform, and stands to one side nipping at it with little whips of laughter...
...since 1797, until last week, had the frigate Constitution felt the tread of a President's feet. Last week, "Old Ironsides," peacefully rotting in the Boston Navy Yard, felt the tread not only of a President, but of a President's wife and of their guest, the Secretary of Commerce...
...Eskimos of Etah, Greenland, the gods still tread the earth. They had seen white men before but never any such as those who last week enabled them to talk to one another at a distance by means of curious, bell-ringing contraptions connected by wires; who showed them silent, black-and-white scenes of people walking, gesticulating, moving their mouths as in speech, upon a white sheet spread in a dark place; who demonstrated a still stranger spark-spitting apparatus they called a "radio," by which the white men said they talked with their kind far south...
...closest approximations to his favorite sport. And since the heads of the Zulu tribes, less foolhardy than the Duncan sisters, did not dare risk their little Evas, they nobly substituted themselves. At least some such explanation must surely suggest itself to those damsels who are still thrilling from the tread of the royal toes...