Word: bows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...latest of his plays to reach Broadway he starts with an excellent idea. He evidently is bent on making fun of the snobbish folk who bow to royalty. So he spins the plausible tale of a restless adventurer who, for want of a better occupation, created himself a prince of a non-existent buffer state. The kowtowing proceeds until he meets his deserted wife who brings him back to earth. All is well while Mr. Milne is making fun of snobbery, but when he dips into romance he starts unwittingly to make fun of himself...
...Major Domo Hoover will warn President Hoover what time to go upstairs and wait. When a military aide appears, escorting the Ambassador, Major Domo Hoover will put them in the Green Room, go aloft again to bring the President down to the Blue Room, open the Green Room door, bow in the Peruvian, wait, lead the Peruvian out to his motor, bow him away...
This will mean the end of cataracts of abusive editorials and magazine articles directed at the traditionally and puritanically sane Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Now is the opportune time for the honorable members of the legislature to take a bow. Their efforts at driving away the overhanging clouds of Watch and Wardism and general Comstocking will not go unrewarded by universal shouts of acclamation...
...actress to make convincing this scenario about a check-girl who pretends to be a debutante from Boston to win the love of a young man who pretends to be a millionaire. Alice White is not an actress. Alice White is a size-fourteen girl who looks like Clara Bow, but cuter; all eyes and no chin. She loses her bathing suit; she rides a horse for the first time; the rest is pretty stupid...
Where this theory that the colleges are going to the demnition bow-wows arose, no one knows. Neither can anyone mark with assurance the origin of its counterpoint. But that both have been overdone, anyone connected with any college will tell you. Of course, there is something wrong with the colleges and the undergraduates; if there were not, they would not be normal. But whatever dislocation there may be, is not, as has been assumed by the protagonists in the discussions, the kind that permanently warps the subject. One cannot help arriving at the conclusion that a good deal...