Word: witch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Witch Of Salem tells of those fearsome days in stern Massachusetts Colony in the year 1692, when religious fervor sometimes mounted to fanaticism, goaded honest people to the ugly business of hanging human beings suspected of witchcraft. (This was more really indigenous to American ancestry than plots about Indians or Creoles.)* Sheila Meloy (Irene Pavloska) to win the indifferent heart of Arnold Talbot (Charles Hackett), accuses the young man's Puritan sweetheart, Claris Willoughby (Eide Norena) of being possessed. Her evidence: a peculiar birthmark. At the very last minute, the little Irish girl repents, averts a cruel execution...
...Blue Waters" (introduced to concertgoers by Mme. Nordica) are best known. With Nelle Richmond Eberhardt, his collaborator ever since he entered seriously upon a musical career, he wrote an Indian opera Shanewis, the only native creation to see two seasons at the Metropolitan (1918, 1919). The Witch of Salem marks an interesting variation in subject matter. It will probably rank as his greatest work to date...
...Story.* Out of the tempestuous waters of Leghorn Harbor and in upon the pitching deck of the U. S. clipper, Witch of the West, towards the evening of the 8th of July, 1822, is tossed a frail figure of perfections angelic rather than human. Its youthful, milk-white features are serene in apparent death. David Butternut, young and gigantic able seaman, trembles at the sight. Only a few hours before he has knocked dead a man who, though an arrant scoundrel, bore just such a seraphic countenance. Now remorseful and half afraid lest this be his victim's ghost...
...comedy as originally written dea's with three Princesses who were shup up in as many oranges by the Queen Witch whose machinations pervade the dramatic cosmos. The action comes when the Prince there is one naturally seeks for the oranges. It is while on his travels in search of them that Gilbert Seldes has brought him into contact with the modernism's which give the play its strong satiric flavor, and makes it well worth the attention of a student vagabond...
...discloses the populace in pursuit of a witch, made fearsomely real by Mme. Ouspenskaya; Act II: Anne's growing consciousness that she too is of the devil's tribe. Just as the crisis begins to crys tallize, the medieval conception of passion as the spirit of Lucifer takes hold. Immediately, the audience is persuaded to see Anne not as a witch but as a woman of more than ordinary emotional capacity. Even the murder of her husband is extenuated by a plausible explanation of heart failure. Hence, confusion. There is a catastrophe, but it is not so much...