Word: beamish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Under the title of "Paint-Brush Song" Mr. Derek Beamish (stet) yearns boozily in alternate rymeless and meterless stanzas to be as cool as brook water and as warm as seasand. The seasand is about the hottest part of this effusion and our personal suspicion is that what Mr. Beamish needs is a cold head towel and a turkish bath...
...Tell It To Sweeney", the Conklin-Bancroft opus at the Metropolitan this week, depicts the trials and tribulations of two temperamental throttle pushers at a rapid tempo. "Come on, Salome, get hot," shouts Cannon-Ball Casey, engineer de. luxe, to his sawed-off but antagonistic fireman, Luke Beamish, who blows off quite as much steam as either the classy "Oriole Limited" or the relic of the Gay Nineties, the "Isobel." And between "the greatest mistake since Vesuvius" and the little "pipesqueale" there materializes enough excitement to keep the two locomotives "throttle up" throughout most of the picture and the audience...
Bancroft takes the part of engineer Cannon-Ball Casey recently fired for starting "The Midnight Flyer" at noon during an eclipse, but at present chief throttle pusher of the fast 'Oriole Limited" who prides himself upon his wrestling prowess. His troubles start when Luke Beamish, "what the world lacked when they built the Panama Canal" when it comes to getting "hot" with a shovel, is taken off the old "Isobel" and made his fireman. Luke is the father of the prettiest girl of the railroad yards, or something like that, and Casey as well as Superintendent Sweeney's collegiate...
...second and last day Miss McKane defeated Miss Wills 6-2, 6-2; Mrs. Covell defeated Mrs. Mallory 6-2, 5-7, 6-2; Mrs. Beamish (British) defeated Miss Goss, 6-11, 8-10, 6-3; Mrs. C. W. Wightman and Miss Helen Wills defeated Miss McKane and Miss Evelyn Colyer. Thus of seven events the U. S. ladies won only one event...
...marvelous humor, wistful whimsicality and delicious irony of the text have been masterfully transferred into the music. Children enjoy most the passages which eloquently describe the "beamish boy's" conquest of the Jabberwock...