Word: charming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these discomforts over, the remainder of Mr. de la Mare's essay expresses a sensitive poet's delicate admiration of these notes flung from the throat of the greatest songster of them all-the Muse's charm flowering in the lonely word, and the essential 'rightness' of this word that is Shakespere's and no other's. Screened through the younger poet's interpretation, we reread the songs with new delight...
...comedy. The vocal ability of the cast is wholly satisfactory: two former members of grand opera companies, Lorna Doone Jackson and Greek Evans, are outstanding. Miss Jackson, in the graceful part of Allan-a-Dale, sings the too familiar "Oh Promise Me", and "The Bells of St. Swithins", with charm and a certain amount of delicate emotion. Mr. Evans' baritone leads excellently the chorus of "Brown October Ale". Though neither Mr. Frazier nor Miss Steck, in the leading roles, possesses a voice of such quality as these, their singing is competent, and their duet "Come Dreams So Bright...
...happy combination, the arts of revue directing and journalism. For he not only puts on a very enjoyable show but also keeps the guests of the Silver Slipper in a carefree spirit of laughter with his witty remarks, most of which have the added charm of spontaneity...
...Classic Charm of Charles
Helena, a gawky and sensitive young girl, with a good education but no charm, falls in love with an older man whom she meets at a summer resort. He tries to believe their relation is platonic, but when, overborne with passion, she comes to give herself to him, he is disgusted and dismayed, shows her as gently as possible her mistake. "In after years ... he learnt that she spoke of him with evident animosity as of one who had done her a grievous wrong...