Word: charming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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ROMEO AND JULIET-Jane Cowl and Rollo Peters offer a vitalized Romeo and Juliet. The interpretation is not notable for subtlety or profundity. Careless enthusiasm is its chief charm...
ROMEO AND JULIET?Jane Cowl and Rollo Peters offer a vitalized Romeo and Juliet. The interpretation is not notable for subtlety or profundity. Careless enthusiasm is its chief charm...
...MacKaye's poem is finely imagined, and movingly though not quite impeccably phrased. The nursery drama sketched by Mr. Hale has charm and symbolic value. The most vivid prose in the number is Mr. Swayze's half-page about "the gods behind the gods...
...curious to note how many of the prospective castaways chose works such as Robinson Crusoe, and rejoiced at their escape from modern realism. As a matter of fact, to the limited population of a desert is- land, Robinson Crusoe would have about as much charm as a shopping list. What to us is the essence of romance would be to him the acme of the commonplace. A photographic description of the dullest incidents of daily life in the sordid haunts of civilization, on the other hand, would become to him a golden fairytale, a realization of all his fondest dreams...
...ENCHANTED APRIL-the author of Elizabeth and Her German Garden-Doubleday ($1.90). Four London women, leaving their husbands behind them, spend an enchanted April in an Italian castle. The tiny rapier of the author's wit, her penetration and her sympathy, give the characters reality and the setting charm...