Word: charmings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Martha-Bryan Allen, small Southern lady who jumped from the Theatre Guild to a Ziegfeld revue, is the girl in question. Her solemn, facile charm perfected the part and indicated that the U. S. stage has discovered one more young woman who yet may wear the mantle of Mrs. Fiske...
...hundred graduates broke up the seats; later, in a savage interpretation of the Charleston, to the accompaniment of an obligato on Mr. Moynahan's squeal-horn. Mr. Wilson did things with his knee-joints that didn't seem at all reasonable. There is no use trying to pin his charm down to paper, but you'll come out of "Laugh It Off" raving about Mr. Wilson, so why shouldn't we? If this be Sophomores, let us make the most of them...
After putting on a play with a considerable amount of delicate charm, the Boston Stock Company pursues this week a higher and more widely popular vein, "Rolling Home" is just another comedy that will make people laugh if they are in the right mood for laughter, and will bore them if they are feeling tired. Such things as "Rolling Home" are written because most audiences crave amusement--they want to do their weeping somewhere else...
...Manhattan, the Little Opera of America, Inc., presented an Opera Comique, Mandragola. Those who attended were familiar with the Little Opera's contention that the U. S. public will pay to see productions which have the music of grand opera without the latter's grandeur, the charm of musical comedy without its undue levity...
Venice also has its charm for him. "You must arrive in Venice in the right mood, and at the right time of day, if you would fully appreciate her beauty," he explained. "In the sunlight she gives herself away light a worn, haggard old woman. The time to arrive in Venice is when the moon diffuses her mellow light over the city. To enjoy Venice best, one should take a gondola and be propelled slowly through the narrow canals. Don't take one of those motor driven gondolas, reported to be coming into use. If they are not done away...