Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...operetta, Patience, on a U. S. tour. It was also his notion to send ahead, as unconscious pressagent, the notorious original of Patience's esthete hero, Oscar Wilde. Carte put the scheme to Oscar as a lecture tour, a mission to preach beauty to the barbarians. Oscar bit. Authors Lewis & Smith have chronicled his U. S. peregrinations against a lavishly illustrated contemporary background. Result is a big (462-page) sprightly blonde of a book, as meaty and hearty as an oldtime burlesque queen. When Oscar Wilde landed in Manhattan he arrived in a U. S. that was already smiling...
Somewhat concealed behind this display of histrionic fireworks, Shaw's play remains a superb bit of theatre. For two acts and a half it relates the pageant of the maid and in one scene after another sets off the spectacle with brilliant insight and unbeatable dialogue. In the epilouge Mr. Shaw takes the stage and puts his people through the amusing cynicisms which mark his very best work...
...that Handy began the musical career that has earned him mention in the Encyclopaedia Britannica for his fathering of the blues. He was the son of a Baptist preacher who considered it disgraceful to be a musician. Young Handy liked nothing so much as his battered cornet or a bit of close harmony with the boys on the street. When they heard of the World's Fair of 1893, four of them organized a quartet, hopped a freight to Chicago. There they remained jobless, finally had to work their way back South. But Handy's ambition persisted...
...Will Rogers, flashes again its jolly anachronisms. Myrna Loy and Frank Albertson do the supporting, along with a host of telephones, automobiles, tanks, and machine guns. There is many an occasion for a belly-laugh, but one can't help feeling that the lavish spilling of blood militates a bit against the gaiety. "Forgotten Faces" shows Herbert Marshall, up the river for murder, nevertheless preventing Gertrude Michael, his extremely naughty wife, from blackmailing their daughter, adopted into respectability. There are some telling bits of psychological suggestion along the harrowing, strident...
...time, take another merry trouncing. There is a mirthful experiment in indoor reverberation and a comical discourse on abnormal psychology, debunking the almost proverbial specialist from Vienna. And, as a final endearing gesture, Mr. Cooper takes a crack at the money-changers, and dabbles in amateur Communism. And every bit of this widespread appeal manages to click...