Word: witches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...volume are of no monumental significance, but they are well done and gain much in atmosphere from the accompanying photographic studies of Miss Ulmann's. By centering her narratives around the lives and opinions of several colorful figures, here a benevolent old widower, there a noisy and witch-rapping harridan, Mrs. Peterkin has skillfully given a convincing portrayal of the community as a whole. The best of the individual portraits is that of the old negro foreman, whose duty it is to see that all runs smoothly on the plantation. Like Conrad's Nostromo among the cargadores, he stands erect...
...Witch of Wych Street," Mr. Waitzkin sets himself the task of rescuing an almost foundered reputation, and he has not wholly escaped the dangers of the attempt. If Madame Pestalozzi Vestris is so well forgotten as she is, she is probably not worth remembering. But Mr. Waitzkin thinks otherwise, and he makes out an original case for Vestris' social and intellectual on the English drama of her time...
Even if the most optimistic view of The Witch is taken, she is a figure of sociological and historical not artistic significance. The drama of her time was such a deadweight of triviality and gew gaw that at her greatest she could not cast it off for essential reforms. Her one move that might have stood out in the history of English theatre, her encouragement of Boucieault came to practical naught in "The London Assurance." She is really no more than a forerunner and a portent. Her history is interesting to the biographically minded and to specialists. This version...
...Wrestling Bradford the dream was so real that when Indians set fire to his church and Marigold was sentenced to burn as a witch he dashed into the flames with her. To many a member of the Metropolitan audience the dream was as unreal with its slinky dancers and baskets of fruit as a Cecil B. De Mille cinema. Marigold was called upon to make two entrances in a floral cart, like Miss America in an Atlantic City parade. Swedish Goeta Ljungberg did as well as she could by a rôle for which she was badly miscast. Baritone...
...earliest Harvard graduate who has published a book during these six months is J. Laurence Laughlin '73, who has written "The Federal Reserve Act, Its Origin and Problems." The latest graduate to have published a work is Leo Waltzkin '33, who has written "The Witch of Wych Street...