Word: truths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...valet. He received a liberal share of the applause, and aided in an apt characterization of his master, Devereaux, by pathetically exclaiming "You'd be such a nice man, sir, if there weren't any women in the world!" Mr. Walling as Inspector Treffy, contributes another line of truth when Mrs. Regan is found in Devereaux's room: "Its funny how often they come to a man's bedroom to fight for their honor." The first-night audience showed an unexpected tendency to laugh at the moment that tears would be appropriate; whether this had anything to do with...
...transplanting of Mr. Collier from the scenes of "Nothing but the Truth" and "Nothing but Lies" to the haunts of the idlest rich, busied only by bolshevist butlers and refractory race-horses offers the happiest medium for the Collierisms that kept the audience in one continuous chuckle from his first appearance to his last, and brought forth five minutes of sustained applause at the end of the second...
There was a brief period in Harvard's career, some 20 years back, when this might have been said with considerable truth. But Harvard paid the bill in full by a long series of humiliating defeats and she learned that she could not play her hothouse plants and society men against teams from Yale and elsewhere selected upon a democratic basis. For many years now she has abandoned that old folly...
...convincing and true. She is the center of attraction at all times. E. E. Clive illustrates, in the role of Mr. Frampton, a fine, genial gentleman whose honor seems to have been smirched. Others, whose work is especially noteworthy, are Diana Storm, with her internal struggle between religious truth and loyalty to the girl she has brought up from infancy and Charles Warburton, as the awkward but loyal country mechanic. The vivacity and excellent character portrayal of Elma Royton contributes materially to the success of the play. Her eyes are the most expressive part of her mobile, wistful face. "Nobody...
...that the miners, contrary even to the advice of their leaders, refused. On the very face of it, from the newspaper reports that both sides were still open to negotiations the first part of the statement may be branded as false. Then besides, let me refer you to the truth: A report has actually been submitted on the coal industry; the trouble is that Lloyd George has consistently refused to act on it. I refer to the Sankey Report which may be found in the Nation...