Word: adroit
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...blatant plot of Five and Ten, conceived and executed as a magazine novel by Author Fannie Hurst, permits Marion Davies, hitherto an adroit though kittenish comedienne, to attempt an emotional role. Although Hearst papers, as is customary, hailed her efforts loudly, her defi ciencies were made more than usually apparent by juxtaposition with the work of smooth, skilful Leslie Howard. The 5? & 10? store tycoon, chief character in the book but not the cinema, is able Richard Bennett, father of Cinemactresses Joan and Constance and Cabaret Dancer Barbara Bennett...
Lawyer Chadbourne will not have charge of the actual operation of the Chadbourne Plan. That task was delegated to an adroit elderly, distinguished gentleman whom some people call "the leading American in London"-Vice President Francis Powell of the English Speaking Union, resigning Chairman of the Anglo-American Oil Co. Lawyer Chadbourne, his job done, sailed for home in response to a cablegram from his two daughters, aged...
...play relates the story of a young Englishman who strangles his faithless mistress, confesses his crime to his father (Lionel Atwill). A swift chain of circumstance compels Mr. Atwill to assume the role of defendant. During his trial, which is accompanied by some adroit British sarcasm from the bench, he begins to crack. Harried by the King's Counsel, who patiently sets his trap and then springs it with heroic crescendo, Actor Atwill breaks down, screams: "I did it! I did it! I did it!" This part of the play is done so well that spectators almost forget that...
...lamented H. R. H. in conclusion, "Those who gamble will gamble at anything. ... I have a horror of gambling." Upon this firm, High Church foundation the present Edward of Wales and Prince George played baccarat last week without stirring the faintest ripple of British criticism. Edward VII, by his adroit, indomitable stand, made his successors safe even from the Low Church, not to mention the worm-high Nonconformists...
...Young, purposely or not, had precisely obeyed Rule No. 4 in the realistic lexicon of How to Become President : Identify yourself early and firmly with a national issue (TIME, Nov. 24). To newshawks who pestered him with blunt questions on the subject of presidential politics, he gave this adroit statement...