Word: charmings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is an indefinable quality in David Garnett's genius. No one explained the charm of Lady into Fox; no one will quite explain The Sailor...
...although we ourselves doubted Miss Yurka's adaptability, prior to Monday, we never remember having seen so complete a transformation, on the stage before. She was foreign, she was fascinating, she was alluring. Without the usual qualification of beauty, she gave an impression of beauty. To her belonged the charm of a facile temperament, soft clinging gowns, add sentences of Russian and French stuck in here and there. And as Lisa, the capricious and the magnificent, she ruled her audience as gently and as cleverly as she ruled her family...
...start of this article, and though the mechanics of her acting were effect, her personality was ill-suited to the portrayal of a daughter of a cheap London boarding house. Her Cockney accent left us in doubt as to her true nationality, and her usual grace and charm could not effectively be forced into the awkward mold required of the true Miss Woofers. As Lady Leicester, Miss Standing would have been superb, but as Miss Woofers she was decidedly miscast...
Among the other interesting columns in your magazine, to which I look forward with eagerness every week, is that devoted to football, as your novel chronicling of the exploits of various teams has a particular charm...
MORE CHANGES, MORE CHANCES- H. W. Nevinson - Harcourt, Brace ($5). Memoirs of an English newspaper correspondent, who championed many an under dog with such adroit charm that he won the unstinted praise of so exacting an editor as the late H. W. Massingham...