Word: falling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Envenomed by repression, all the sisters fall madly in love with Pepe El Romano, who is engaged to the eldest, Angustias. Night after night the youngest, Adela, slips outside to make love to Pepe in a barn. The ugliest sister, Martirio, informs Bernarda. In an outburst of fury the widow shoots Pepe. Adela hangs herself...
...Lady's Not For Burning will be brought to Broadway next fall by the Theatre Guild. A Phoenix Too Frequent, a one-acter, now rehearsing in New York for a late April opening, will be his first to reach...
...every sort. He has also obtained some older treasures. Dr. Haven Emerson was able to produce 30 letters from Ancestor Ralph Waldo Emerson. Chemist William Jay Schieffelin reached into a closet and pulled out the seven letters that John Jay wrote to Major General Philip Schuyler after the fall of Fort Ticonderoga...
...irrelevantly titled script gets no help from Director Jean (Johnny Belinda) Negulesco's studied straining for effects. Example: in Garfield's deathbed scene, a nurse gratuitously draws a window shade so that a shadow can fall over his face. Nor do the picture's hand-me-down roles make for good performances. France's Actress Prelle (formerly Presle), whose delicate playing was a major asset to Devil in the Flesh, has been transformed by more than a change of spelling. She is unimpressive in a role that makes her lift a wan voice in three interminable...
Voice of Experience. In Rochester, N.Y. the Appellate Division of the State Supreme Court upheld the judge's decision against Mrs. Florence White's damage suit for injuries suffered in a fall, agreeing that "she might expect a barroom floor to be wet on Christmas...