Word: charmings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...jaded taste which no longer enjoys the upper story work of the lady with the green millinery, which finds the sayings of Shaw monotonous as are any sayings too often repeated, turns to new fields those of football. What charm have a few "Charming People" when Mr. Erlanger promises a hundred histrionic collegians and a brass band? For six scenes he will lead his audience through the campus comics of a university day. Before their eyes cheerleaders and cheered will battle for Craven and Rice University. Crafty Mr. Craven, refreshing Mr. Rice. Touchdown, Broadway...
...childless King of Sweden [becoming King Charles XIV, 1818-1844]. Prince Olaf of Norway is said to have inherited the shrewd and clever brain of his grandfather, King Edward VII of England, while his first cousin, the Prince of Wales, has inherited Edward VII's social tact and charm...
...thought that there were "more distractions in the town than was good for the students." And the Rosenbaum brothers founded the Milford School at a village thus named, hard by New Haven on Long Island Sound. This was distinctly not a cramming or tutoring school, yet retained "all the charm of the old regime"?i. e. special attention to individual cases, never more than five boys to a class. To the tutorial system were added dormitories, rules, athletics, school spirit. To the various types of scholastic failures, make-up students, sickly and discouraged boys, was added the brilliant type...
...Book of Charm. A drug clerk in a Southern village is desolated because his beloved is going to New York "to work and live". What can he do to keep her? He buys Charm, 412 pages for $8.27, reads the last chapter, on "Sex Appeal". A very adequate and pretty plot, this, for a musical comedy-it offers neat openings for such songs as That snug gle-up-and-hug-store, That hold me tight and- mug-store- That clove-kissing, licoricing, Drug-store...
...ditty .entitled, Be My Charm Mama, and I'll Be Your Soda Pop. But alas! there are no such songs. For this production, not a musical comedy, seeks to explore further the vein of Merton of the Movies, The Show Off-to be gracious, tactful, gay- in short, to be charming. The first act-the most amusing first act of the current season-achieves this, but in the second the plot lifts its girlie-girlie face, and ghosts of the unsung ballads interrupt the accomplished small-town gabbing of Maidel Turner, and the adept gaucheries of Drug Clerk Kenneth...