Word: charmings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...evening is like nothing in our current theatre. It borrows from the dance, the scene designer, the musician, the actor, the blabbering low comic and the story teller. With rare, almost incredible, genius of synthesis these elements are blended in delicate pageantry. Herr Reinhardt bewitches the emotions with every charm that can be worked within a walled building where a stage is set. There are flaws, but they are drowned in beauty...
Unlike Miss Mary Byrne, Miss Emily Rowland, who taught school in New York and Virginia, always found a charm in the monotony of her career. A year ago, the University of the State of New York awarded her the degree of Doctor of Letters; last week she celebrated her 100th birthday in Sherwood, N. Y., where she lives, saying: "Both boys and girls are better than they were fifty years ago. . . . When I was a girl all boys thought that it was the thing to do to be fast and impertinent. . . . The girls in my youth were neither...
...fact that "Rang Tang" does not go in for undue lavishness of scene and costume is a great relief, for the comparative simplicity is in large measure responsible for its charm. It is also refreshing that there are very few members of the cast that stand out. The whole production is well balanced, but if might be well to add that the specialty dances of Bryson and Jones are the best thing the reviewer has seen for a long time
...Crownes soon get used to hearing people speak as if some hereditary tragedy were certain to overtake them. After the war they live together in London where they are regarded as twin comets of disaster. Their charm is sufficient to make everybody want to know them, sufficient also to make everyone want to be in at the death of their airy and desperate career. Trevor describes them: "'Their career is as romantic as a soap bubble, and that's the most romantic thing I can think of. ... You see it drifting into all sorts of dangers and just...
...ordinary clothes, albeit a bit out of fashion. Not only did Queen Mary not wear a crown, nor her gorgeous coronation robes of state (although a priceless rope of pearls was around her neck and two fascinating diamonds glittered in her ears), but she showed every evidence of the charm that one expects in a human woman...