Word: charming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...like handsome lassies. Your intellectual friends may excoriate with supercilious scorn the softheaded sentimentality of a public that will go wild over the product of an extraordinary accouchement. But have another look at the babes before you snoor. Besides the appeal of their tiny smiles, there is an unquestionable charm in their fivences...
Also on the program is the "Elegie" by Gabriel Faure, noted French teacher and composer. This work, in which the cello soloist will be Jean Bedetti, has no pretensions to be outstanding, and merely seeks to charm the listener by its lyrical qualities. The number which follows the "Elegie" is Liszt's "Mephisto Waltz" and it too, in addition to various satanic passages, has a highly emotional section which is often compared with the music in the second act of "Tristan and Isolde." To relieve these two works, the program ends with Ravel's "Rhapsodie Espagnole...
...willingness of the House of McBride to continue publishing them. With some wonder he remarks that his books have rarely failed to evoke passionately unfavorable criticism, unadulterated by the least rationality, from all the better-thought-of reviewers. Of these and other bookish matters he speaks with wit and charm...
...Collegiate" is more than passing fair because of the dance routines of Betty Jane Cooper and her chorus and the comedy work of Lynn Overman. Penner is the rich angel for a charm school run by Jack Oakie, which teaches the girls how to dress, dance, and use cosmetics...
...waiting in a cave for him to return. When he does, the Wang family is made to eat humble pie and husband & wife live happily ever after. As with The Yellow Jacket a generation ago and the Mei Lan-fang repertory in 1930, Lady Precious Stream is supposed to charm U. S. spectators by presenting the Chinese theatre in all its childish ingenuousness. The characters tap their foreheads to indicate thought, hide behind chairs to avoid each other and. when required to faint, are lowered easily to the floor by ubiquitous property men. First nighters found all this to their...