Word: charmings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Miss Judith Anderson in the leading and pathological role has a certain charm which offsets in part irritating elements in her handling of the part. At best she would have a difficult task, and Mr. Kelly has given her none too adequate help. In the last act she is effective in a Shelley-like conception of the waning moon when...
Birthday for Mrs. Thomas Whiffen, grand old lady of the U. S. theatre (born March 12, 1845). She played with charm the role of the grandmother in the musical comedy, Just Fancy, in Chicago, professed a little stage-fright after 63 years on the boards...
...please readers of Shaw's Back to Methuselah. The volume is not without a certain philosophic realism. Anthropomorphic deities grow ponderously chatty over the direction of human destinies. Nonetheless Author Sheehan, after working for years, has produced a novel which treats of gods and men with such tenuous charm that one is almost sure the writer must have drowsed in Paradise...
...York, 1928. $5). As in the case of his works on Marie Antoinette and Robespierre, Mr. Belloc has made no changes is the estimates he made of Danton back in his salad days--nor does there seem to be any reason why he should, for his chief charm, his eye for the dramatic and his fine literary style need no refurbishing...
...College has grown, the common meeting grounds have tended to disappear. Classes have been broken up and their members scattered in distant dormitories. That ancient institution, the Fence, has lost its charm. John Doe and the social celebrity, no longer sit side by side on its top rail and aimlessly while away the time between classes. The old beer shops, where all gathered Saturday night for an evening of good fellowship, are but a sacred memory. In their place have come movies, cars, and wholesale migrations known as the "week-end exodus". The last common meeting place to withstand...