Word: wherein
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Calvary Baptist (No. 123 West 57th Street), wherein is the pulpit of angular, fulminating Dr. John Roach Straton...
Ruth Shepley plays the sweet girl whom Slippery marries; and theatre-goers with good memories recall The Boomerang wherein Ruth Shepley played another such, spraining her ankle nightly for the furtherance of romance...
Tonight at 12. Practice, it is apparently the conviction of Author Owen Davis, makes the playwright perfect. Nor is the conviction betrayed in this, the latest of more than 250 Davis dramas, wherein a comparatively improbable situation and an unlikely plot are made to seem funny and exciting by turns, owing to smart dialog and skillful construction...
Florence Reed has never before played a Shakespearian role though she rehearsed in Hamlet with E. H. Sothern in 1907. She devoted her talents in 1917 to the long continued spectacularities of Chu Chin Chow, wherein Ali Baba and his robbers concealed themselves at the Manhattan Opera House ; hers also was the somewhat wanton Shanghai Gesture...
...hard to say just wherein the picture falls down, it comes so close to being truly excellent. Perhaps more than in anything else the fault is in tendency for the story to moralize, to proclaim too blatantly the some-what shopworn "I still believe in you" motif. Far be it from this reviewer to simply that that is not a good and even often necessary chord, but nevertheless it has always had the effect on him of inducing a slight shudder when it is blared forth upon the brasses...