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...course this is not Andrew Volstead. Volstead is a myth. Volstead is a figure as noble as John Barleycorn is sinister, a powerful crusader, a tower of righteousness, a leader of a great cause?or, if you prefer, he is a bigoted little reformer, a benighted, misguided zealot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Myth | 3/29/1926 | See Source »

...striking scene wherein the elders display an ostrich morality, convinced that a scandal is buried if only a marriage takes place. But it rears its ugly head in another striking scene, when a fanatic Negro zealot arouses the primitive instincts of the phlegmatic Dutchmen by the simple process of beating a drum and thumping their theological frenzy. Louis Wolheim ("Hairy Ape") as the Negro handled that drum up to the climacteric hysteria like a Sousa of the soul. Ann Davis fills poignantly the repressed role of the girl, and Frank McGlynn ("Abraham Lincoln") and Kenneth MacKenna are two other stalwarts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: May 19, 1924 | 5/19/1924 | See Source »

...zealot of the Savonarola party has affianced his daughter to a fellow puritan. She is loved by a young gallant of the worldly party. The wedding is about to take place. Outside, the trial by fire is about to begin. The young gallant enters by a chimney. There is a; disturbance. The gallant makes a bargain with the zealot father. If the trial by fire does not take place, he shall have the girl. The compact is no more than sealed when a deluge of rain outside extinguishes the flames in which the test was to be made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Operas | 1/14/1924 | See Source »

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