Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When he returned to Washington, Dr. Wiedfeldt wrote a note to Secrecretary Hughes asking the return of $5.60. The Secretary of State wrote to the Governor of West Virginia: the Governor wrote to the Road Commissioner; the Road Commissioner wrote to the Mayor of Bolivar in order that diplomatic usage and $5.60 might be restored...
First Mr. Hagedorn shows us extracts from such books as "The Winning of the West" and "Hero Tales from American History" which represent the historical background that Roosevelt possessed. Then he turns to the body of the book which he devotes to the "Roosevelt philosophy...
Anyhow, in these rather terrifying surroundings, the will is read, and nobody has the slightest luck except Miss Annabel West, to whom everything falls unless she chances to be of unsound mind. Apparently she isn't, but how she comes through the rest of the play with all her mental equipment intact is the greatest mystery...
...action must remain an impenetrable secret, so far as the Playgoer is concerned. But its effectiveness, judged by that reliable criterion, its reception by the audience, deserves no little admiration. By means of thoroughly adequate scenery and "props", and the services of the old West Indian, "Mammy" Pleasant, an extremely advantageous current of excitement and hysteria is set up, which needs only the slamming of a door or the tolling of a bell to produce instant uproar,--not only on the stage but off. Occasional periods of silence on the stage are filled with the giggles and titters...
...hard to spoil the effect. All one has to do is to be frightened at the right places. Nevertheless, Miriam Doyle is pleasing as the courageous and attractive young heiress; and Walter Regan, who has a fairly difficult part as the wavering, somewhat ridiculous schoolboy lover of Miss West, and the official humorist, is one of the outstanding players. As Cousin Sue, who feels "in duty bound" to tell everything she knows in a rather disagreeable fashion, Florence Huntington is so convincing that one hesitates to praise her; her part seems too natural to be acting. The other characters...