Word: charming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Francis Wilson is above all admirable. As the lovable but provocative Rip, he plays the part of an indolent husband to perfection. Long passages of monologue are the brightest and apparently the most simple occurrences to him. His charm is positively effervescent and his restraint of gesture is an art which his supporting cast can not study too intently. Gretchen, the desperate wife who is driven to shrewishness, is played with a wealth of interpretative understanding by Emma Dunn, while George Riddell in the role of the rich grasping merchant of Falling Waters, too phlegmatic in the first act, rises...
...framework for their pleasantries is inconsequential. Mrs. Cheyney is suddenly discovered in society after a somewhat mysterious widowhood in far Australia. Two eligible lords promptly propose marriage, and are somewhat nonplused to find that she is a pearl-thief masked by a shrewd overlay of charm and manner. She repents in time, of course, to select the more attractive of her noble suitors...
...particularly when stimulated by a masculine audience or by the fact that they are wearing new hats. But if the badinage across a tea-table were carried on in black and white; if ivory tablets were provided for the composition of mots in pencil, would the written small-talk charm? Would it scintillate and glitter? No, thought the editors of the Harvard Crimson (undergraduate daily). To test the well-known fact that a woman's wit is quenched by the sight of a sheet of paper like a candle by a wet snuffer, they last week invited the girls...
...best cast, and the local characters highly indigenous and the comic prize fighter, "Bull" Moran, et altera. Young Jerry Devine, as the hero and heroine idolater and the son of the coquettish proprietress, is, however, one of the chief stars. His juvenile acting is absolutely genuine and has much charm withal. And with these bouquets distributed, one must retire. "Weeds" is not a brilliant or sensational play, but it affords as good a measure of diversion as many a more pretentious offering, in addition to being the most excellently cast play in town
...that bristles in a futile attempt to conceal the deep and challenging kindness he feels for all lads under 16; Mr. Tabor, a man who looked as if he might have sat as a model, long ago, for Mr. Punch- a very tall, sanguine, athletic Mr. Punch, with a charm that made mothers ask him out to dinner and fathers put him up for their clubs...