Word: evenings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present and she was asked to sing for him. So impressed was he that he engaged her for the following season to sing Mimi in La Boheme. When that time came she had used all her money; her cook had been buying the food out of her own savings. Even the day after her great success, Singer Stiles had to ask the cook for an additional two francs to buy her morning coffee...
...most important person in Argentina this week is Esther, grand champion of champions in Argentina's annual beauty show. . . . Even President Irigoyen is momentarily overlooked except for the day he presided over the ceremonies at which Esther was declared champion, and even then the president of the Republic played second fiddle to Esther. With insuperable eyes, perfect body and delicate lines, Esther has been admired this week by a great array of high government officials, diplomats and society matrons...
...play ends with Terekhine's crime discovered and his punishment in the offing. He obviously represents the gamut of hypocritical, cruel, supremely selfish obstacles to the Soviet ideal. At one point he rehearses a speech about hunger with his mouth full of bread and beer. But even as Terekhine is apprehended, so the authors seem to imply that the Soviet cause will ultimately be purified. Full of good talk and temperamental skirmishes, the play reveals a sophisticated degree of analysis. It is the first production of the Theatre Guild Studio, experimental offshoot of the Theatre Guild employing its younger...
...play reminds you how absorbing ethical problems may be, even when they arise among such pastel make-believes as Mr. Milne's characters. And though his answers are questionable, Mr. Milne knows how to dramatize his questions. The moral excitements are excellently stirred by Henry Hull and Edith Barrett, while Harry Beresford's vignette of a London bobby is beyond praise...
Says Author Faÿ: "The secret of Franklin was his memory and his shrewd cleverness. It was easy for him to recall the slightest detail of even distant events, and he had a plan for everything." In spite of his careful creed of moderation, Ben was "cheerful and fond of good living, a hearty drinker and a good story teller." Also, though Author Faÿ does not labor the point, Ben had little saintliness in his blood: in 1785 he had a great-grandson, the illegitimate son of the illegitimate son of his illegitimate son. Author Faÿ, ironic...