Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prunella. Students of the Theatre Guild School revived this fantasy by Laurence Housman and Harley Granville-Barker for three special matinees. Winthrop Ames officiated as guest director. The story is that of Pierrot and Pierette. One young lady, Sylvia Sidney, gave brilliant promise. The matinees attracted sufficient attention to be extended...
...Scandals are numerous. There is Ann Pennington, whose knees are impudence itself; Harry Richman, night club interlocutor; Eugene and Willie Howard, Jewish comedians; Buster West, comic; McCarthy Sisters and Fairbanks Twins, who dance, sing; Tom Patricola, frantic dancer; Frances Williams, whose Charleston is notable; and Fowler and Tamara, brilliant ballroom artists...
Some 10,000,000 Britishers heard her sing over the radio, heard the little speech. Some 3,000 paid trebled prices to get into the theatre. Important correspondents, critics, wrote columns on her "brilliant farewell" on the same stage where she had made "triumphant début" 38 years before. Melba, happy, read their stories, sniffed a little at the "triumphant début," recalled her own version...
...knew every debutante, dowager, rake, banker, and gourmet who lived in Manhattan between 1885 and 1915. He chose the wines that J. P. Morgan offered his guests. James Hazen Hyde, one winter night, gave in his restaurant a costume ball which is said .to have been the most brilliant event** in the social history of the city. He was the son of a Vermont carpenter of French descent; he worked as a waiter in the Hotel Brunswick and, when the management discharged him, the patrons whom he had pleased helped him to start a place...
...beauty with the spirit of a bourgeois curate, rising to histrionic heights on emotional wings supplied by the death of her asthmatic daughter-shallow and caddish Painter Thomas Lawrence being lugged in to emphasize the inferiority of the Siddons-Kemble strain. The one study that comes off concerns a brilliant young French historian who mastered life, and then frittered it away, by emulating a character in Balzac-a rebuffed suitor who paused on the threshold, returned to the assault...