Word: witness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pride and Prejudice (adapted by Helen Jerome; Max Gordon, producer;. Nothing in this show is below par except the antiques which dress the Regency setting for Jane Austen's marital sweepstakes. Playwright Jerome has caught in her script a goodly quantity of Novelist Austen's sly, introverted wit, and Director Robert Sinclair has seen that a splendid cast of actors conduct themselves with all the foolish elegance and witless frivolity of the period...
...masterpiece. Ingeniously impressed into four episodes, the first ending with Eliza's escape as she starts across the ice, the last with Tom's magnificent entry into Heaven, the ballet gives a free play to E. E. Cummings' intricate imagination, does not suggest the savage wit usually characteristic of his work. In the dance of Crossing The Icechoked River, the scene is set as follows: the entire stage floor is a drifting continuously pattern of irregularly squirming brightnesses: elsewhere lives black silence filled with perpetual falling of invisible snow. . Through the dance of Heavenly Longing, when little...
...Laval wrote as his precious thought of the moment, "10%." Then, scribbling his autograph beneath, he strolled out as pleased with himself as only a French statesman can be when he knows that France is not only acclaiming his heavy statecraft but will soon be chuckling at his light wit...
...three men who founded Groton, Billings ("Mr. B.") and Gardner ("Mr. G.") are dead. Endicott Peabody at 78 is as quick of wit and pink of cheek as a man of 60. Every boy and master knows that the Rector misses nothing, that his word is law. Dr. Peabody still coaches one of the intramural crews, still rides horseback. Sometimes Mrs. Peabody rides with him. A handsome, fragile lady, in black velvet dog collar and pearls, the Rector's wife has been a Peabody all her life and the Groton colors, red, white & black, were the colors...
...stockbrokers of Throgmorton Street, the officers of the Cairo City relayed a rumor extremely offensive to touchy Italian honor, to wit: "Recently an Italian ship which failed on entering Alexandria to salute British warships was forced to return to the sea and re-enter the port with the proper salute." If British admirals in non-British ports were thus humiliating Italian sea captains last week in the manner of traffic policemen, then Europe was indeed at the mercy of an incident...