Word: tragically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...devoted mother. He had a permanent quarrel with his brother. He had had financial collapse, humiliating work as a government clerk at small pay in the department of woods and forests-worst of all, lack of recognition for his music. Final blow: his life-child, the opera Boris Godonnov, tragic and powerful story of a guilty Tsar, a work loved by the people, rejected by the critics, had been taken out of the repertoire of the famed Marie Theatre and never again performed during his life. Drugs and cognac were no longer an escape from reality. Death was best. Moussorgsky...
...Parent Church followed the gambit by charging that the Mother Church was responsible for many stupid tragic deaths, cited that of one Walter J. Kline. who died under the care of a Christian Science nurse.* The Mother Church answered that the Kline nurse was not a duly accredited Christian Science nurse said: "There is nothing in the teaching of Christian Science which should keep a patient from having whatever physical care he needs and the best...
...Scene", by Elmer Rice, will undoubtedly be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the best American play of the year. Like "Journey's End" it employs but one set--the brown stone front of a West Side tenement--and what plot it has is incidential to its theme of the tragic force of a sordid environment in the lives of a small group of human beings. It is distinguished, incidently, by the most terrifying murder one may find on any stage of the Rialto. The third hardest play to get tickets for is the Theatre Guild's production of "Caprice...
...Francesca", replete with pretty costumes and phrases such as "the stars in palpitating cosmic passion held" has Jane Cowl in the starring role and Walter Hampden is playing "Cyrano" once more up-town at his Sixty-second Street Theatre. Margaret Anglin does valiant work in making a drama of tragic married life, "Security" convincing and next week Ethel Barry-more will come to her theatre in "The Love Duel", highly praised in its out-of-town engagements. Meanwhile Mrs. Fiske has just opened a revival of that comedy of social climbing in the Third Empire, "Mrs. Bumpstead-Leigh...
...proverbially gay '90s are sufficiently Victorian to give "Missie" a sense of duty toward her elders?always she defers to them, always she forfeits her own happiness. First there was her father upon whom she and the rest of the household danced attendance. Then there was her lonely mother?tragic fat wreck of a plump burlesque-girl. Then there was her father's excessively respectable mother who adopted Missie, re-established her in society...