Word: phantoms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Protestants of Samnaun seemed to prefer the cemetery to the church. They dwindled away much faster than the Catholics-so fast that at last there was only one of them left, the old man who rings the bell every other Sunday in the empty church, calling the phantom parishioners to worship. He retains his rights...
...occasional appearances on the screen and intensifies the impression that she is an exceptionally capable comedienne. Perhaps her grasp of emotional acting is less secure; there is so little of it in Beverly that it doesn't matter. Miss Davies plays a girl, in one of those romantic phantom kingdoms, who masquerades for her cousin the Prince...
...Stokowski, conducting a symphony of empty chairs, churns on and on; the music must be coming to a climax, for now his arms wildly flagellate; he whips his fiddlers up to a crisis, holds his phantom cymbals and horns and woodwinds suspended in a terrific fortissimo of silence, and then, at a final mute drum-stroke, drops his arms to his sides. . . . Standing alone, his back to the audience, he orders his invisible orchestra to rise to the applause that does not come ? turns, smiles, walks quickly...
...plays by J. M. Barrie, the next best thing is a revival. We have not had a Barrie play since Mary Rose, and nobody seems to know at all when he will finish his next one. Nearly every Barrie revival runs the danger of being submerged by the lovable phantom of Maude Adams. This production was originally scheduled for Laurette Taylor and Godfrey Tearle, and was to be followed by The Admirable Crichton. It was offered to Grace George, who with remarkable insight suggested that the play would be most interesting if done by one of the new generation. Helen...
...while a majority of those Democrats who favored Brookhart were westerners. Thus the division as occurred earlier this season on the amendments to the appropriation bill. It is a reminder that while the two party system in America is a persistent tradition, it often assumes the properties of a phantom. In yet another light, the recurrence of this sectional line-up, which is essentially an arraignment of farm against town indicates a cleavage not unknown to American politics. In 1800, 1828, and 1896, it culminated in new party alignments. Now with the House falling under urban sway as the population...