Word: centenarian
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Despite Duke Borea d'Olmo centenarian zeal, the three royal special trains were an hour late in reaching Assisi; a thunderstorm burst; Princess Giovanna dropped her bridal bouquet into the gutter; Tsar Boris was soaked to the skin; during the ceremony tear after tear coursed down the cheeks of the bride...
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Majestic--Otis Skinner in "One Hundred Years Old." Tranquil and pleasant study of a centenarian by the Quintero brothers...
Papa Juan, the centenarian around whom the story revolves, is a fine old man, kindly, good and wise, who has used every year of his age to the fullest and still has as keen an interest in life and as live a brain as any of his three generations of descendants. With real finesse is the character drawn. The other members of the family who one meets as the play progresses all must yield in some point to its head. Don Evaristo is a bit crotchety, Dona Filomena is on bad terms with everybody; Dona Marciala is intolerant towards Gabriella...
...centenarian is played by Otis Skinner, who is himself now 71. Through five decades of trouping he has acquired a mellow patina which enhances his interpretation of one not unlike himself in wisdom and sweetness of age. Sitting in his royally red chair, he pokes with his cane and his innuendos, rumbles and whispers, enchants his family with the great white droop of his head, the flash of his cavernous eyes. In an adept supporting cast, Fred Tiden is outstanding as the finical son-in-law who cannot bear to have small children tumbling about him. The children are never...