Word: beau
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Beam's. Manhattan beheld the unusual conflict of two plays by the same author opening on the same night last week. The playwright is C. K. Munro,* of England, and his second comedy was Beau-Strings, discussed below. At Mrs. Beam's was done by the Theatre Guild in their best manner, evoked delight from the critics and from those who pay to be amused...
...Beau Gallant. The author of this fable attempted to glorify the American gentleman. He chose a type of Gentleman that is dying out. His hero is a man who will not work and who tries to make an Art out of clothes, cuisine and calling cards. He goes broke and is terribly insulted by sheriffs and by well meaning friends who try to lend him money. In the background hovers, inevitably, a girl, to say nothing of a rich uncle from South America. Lionel Atwill does his very best to make a silk purse out of a stuffed shirt...
...your issue of Feb. 8 (FRANCE), your little article under the caption of "Quel Beau Nu" doesn't exaggerate one bit. I spent the summer in Paris and was at the Concert Mayol several times. Why I went is beyond me, as it is without question the greatest "gyp" joint ever foisted on an American public. You can't turn around without bumping into an extended palm, and my first experience cost a 20-franc note for a one-franc service. They don't know the meaning of the word "change." The insipid Harry Pilcer was the leading (?) attraction...
...SCHOOL days, SCHOOL days, Dear old GOLDen RULE days! READing, and WRITing and 'RITHmetic, TAUGHT to the TUNE of the HICK'ry stick ! You were my QUEEN in CALico, I was your BASHful BAREfoot beau; You wrote on my slate "I LOVE you, Jo." When WE were a COUPle o' KIDS, kids, kids, kids...
Last week the officers of this institution learned with alarm that the U. S. debt claims upon France were being held up to ridicule by a loud-voiced Parisian revue performer, Mlle. Marcelle Parisys, in Quel Beau Nu at the Concert Mayol, Paris, (TIME, Feb. 8). Swiftly the following cablegram was despatched to the Washington-Lafayette Institute's Paris agent: "Parisys' number Mayol against America bad effect on press here. Will do much harm if continued. See revue; also Oscar Dufrenne, producer; explain what Washington-Lafayette is doing. Cable results...