Word: tragically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...merriest, of its closet type. Mr. Coward was not, however, so brilliant as a musical comedian. Unendowed with the impish attributes of a clown, his efforts were slightly laborious, and he sang in a weedy voice and danced with small facility. But when he grew dramatic in a tragic number reminiscent of his famous "Poor Little Rich Girl" he stirred his audience to transports similar to those he used to arouse in "The Vortex." Entitled "Dance, Little Lady," it was quite a grisly warning to the black-bottomers...
...Commission. In the drafting of many of Wilson's great addresses he was consulted. The cautious student, however, will await the further publication of Wilson's papers before seeking to evaluate thte Colonel's influence. No fresh light is thrown on their separation, which remains to Colonel House "a tragic mystery . . . that now can never be dispelled, for its explanation lies buried with...
...this Montemezzi has said with music. He stumps the old King on-stage with troubled horns. He sways the lovers with his strings. He tells the anguish of Flora's soul with a single overblown clarinet. He keeps it all ineffably tender and tragic until Flora's death and then, as if his inspiration died with her, he lets it go watered away to a teary...
There is barely enough body to the play to make the situation created ring entirely true, but this is easily over-looked as are certain confusions arising from the legal turn which is taken in the final act. The constant interplay of the frivolous with the tragic, makes one forget the obvious flaws as the audience is carried from the tittering stage to one of extreme tension...
...should not divorce a husband who has been unfaithful. He placed his characters in the suburbs, brought the husband's woman out to see them, had a thorough, earnest airing of the family dirty linen. Mr. Pascal does not try "to be funny about divorce, nor is he tragic. He is honest rather than brilliantly original...