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Then a knot of people collects suddenly at one side, looking and pointing up at a window. You go to see what they see. Up in the window, against a background of glowing smoke, a man is trying to raise the sash...
...gruelling climax. The Drums of Love. Lovers long ago defeated in their love have brightened many a story with golden shadows of a picturesque despair. Now, under a title which is highly absurd and which has reference to nothing except the box-offices of small-town theatres, with a background of South American rather than Italian roads and castles, is told the medieval legend of Paolo and Francesca. A huge, hunchbacked, hirsute grandee marries a small and beautiful lady who loves his handsome brother. When the hunchback goes away to war, love for each other overcomes pity and discretion...
...considered herself capable of being a better-than-average mother. Her husband, a retired distiller associated with the soap firm of B. T. Babbitt in Manhattan, died four years ago leaving her childless. Quietly she selected "a young man of good family and good character with the proper eugenic background'' to be the father of her child. "There was nothing which approached promiscuity" in their relationship, she said. The young man, after performing his function as eugenic husband, quietly stepped out of her life. A fortnight ago at the Lying-in Hospital in Manhattan she gave birth...
...work of the school of Great Decorators in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries which makes the contents of these three rooms stand out in the memory of the casual observer, the student lounging there after a Fine Arts examination. That screen on the dais, with its silver gray background and autumn flowers behind a brushwood fence, is echoed in the huge grey globe of Shigaraki pottery. The red camelia of the screen finds a red reflection in the lacquer of the ancient stand below. So too with the insolent macaw by Jakucho as his whiteness is given the emphasis...
...fact that Nick Van Alstyne's son-in-law tries to ruin him after having been handed a profitable business by old Nick and that said son-in-law gets into difficulties with another lady furnishes the background for the plot of the play. The action and the humor of the play are centered around "Henrietta," of whom there turn out to be three. On the whole, though the play is not uproarious from start to finish. It is amusing and there is plenty of action and much laughter to be had, especially in the third...