Word: charming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Both principals play their parts with breezy British efficiency, leaning perhaps a trifle too heavily on the sexy angle. Svelte Miss Jeans has undeniable charm, undulates across a stage with the grace of a super-Ina Claire. A nice little piece of character acting is done by David Keir, the birdlike little Scotch bailiff...
...long as Mr. Milne shows the past with a charmingly sentimental wit, he is on firm ground. He creates a strong sympathy for both of his leading characters that follows to the end of the play. When he sets David to orating on the Futility and Superficiality of the present he unfortunately fails to be convincing, or even amusing. Cocktails and smart talk might be thoroughly evil, but David is merely trite on the subject. Aside from this, there is only one major fault in the play, and that is a very flat end. The discovery of the police delivered...
...clothing which saucy Miss Hopkins displays in His Majesty's Car is conspicuously chic, but by no means so revealing as that in which she disported herself as Kalonika in Lysistrata. Yet the Hopkins charm is undiminished...
...Gentleman All' is fairly well written. Too much of the dullness of the Southern life has perhaps crept in without bringing with it enough of the charm that commonly attributed to the Bourbon whiskey and the ladies of the South. Joseph Hergesheimer once wrote a book called "Balisand" which pictured a society very similar to Mr. Fitzgerald's, "Balisand" will never be mistaken for the great American novel, yet it is a better book than "Gentlemen...
Above all else, there is charm in this book, at once tangible, personal and yet indefinite, so unobtrusively is it blended with the subject at hand. The author is avowedly writing about some of the English. For that reason he does not try to tell about all the English, nor even all about the English. In his habitat of Romley he finds by-ways, people, institutions, manners, ideas, ideals, and vices enough to write a book. Consequently his opinions are not violent, his progress leisurely, his attitude sympathetic...