Word: braced
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...GIRL-Vina Delmar-Harcourt Brace ($2). On a Hudson River Sunday excursion boat-jazz under bright lights, petting in the shadows-Dot of the Bronx picks up Harlem Eddie (not colored), gets goin' with him steady, falls for him (i.e. is seduced) and thus becomes a bad girl. But she marries him next day, and soon enough has a child. Simply this and nothing more-but what more is there...
...such a research been made in the past, there would indeed have been many a strange brace of simultaneous children for scientists to study. Doubtless the savants of California wished that they could include, among their specimens...
Keep Shufflin' is for those who like capering, singing, cuckoo coons. Flourney Miller and Aubrey Lyles, the lazy and fantastic brace of dark comedians who slouched with such comic melancholy through Shuffle Along, are again on hand. They organize the Equal Got League, a millennial society which is even funnier than the Knights of the Green Forest; Mr. Miller is its cunning and listless leader, Mr. Lyles his henchman. There are also more strenuous Bedlamites from Harlem who break into loud melodious ululations; there is a skilful and frantically energetic black and blues orchestra and marty lively tappers...
PARACHUTE - Ramon Guthrie - Harcourt Brace...
...funny he is. It is a case for superlatives, but not for the kind of superlatives that were properly scattered at The Gold Rush. There is nothing in The Circus to match the moment in which Actor Chaplin, with all the fine frenzy of a gourmet dissecting a brace of broiled quail, ate a Christmas dinner consisting of an old, very tough, boiled boot; or that in which he amused his imaginary guests with a miniature ballet dance, furnished by two forks, each shod with a roll. But it would be very difficult not to laugh at Charles Chaplin when...