Word: cleverly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with him there. Also his son Karl. Also his daughter Elizabeth. He had friends to soothe him, drinks to amuse him. "I ate, drank, smoked and talked too much," said he. Yet spiritual hunger rather than oafish gluttony spoke in the fierceness with which he whipped up the clever and sometimes moving music which Mr. Honegger has written about King David...
Reports taken at the seances consistently stated that nothing supernatural had been observed, but that there was "no trickery." One observer demonstrated how many of the effects could be reproduced by clever acrobats, but when additional precautions were taken the next night, the phenomena appeared stronger than ever...
...sounds like a paradox, but what I mean is that plays can be effectual and lasting, can be true art, only when they deal with matters vital to the people of the world, only when they strike truly and deep. Too many of today's comedies are based on clever lines: they are distorted photographs of modern superficialities...
...Aldous Huxley?Doran ($2.00). Not a very satisfying book unless you are either a passionate pilgrim or a fervent admirer of the sheer literary skill of slender, drooping, cynical Mr. Huxley. Here he is less cynical than usual, for he is traveling, enjoying himself, not trying particularly to be clever. In Rotterdam, Mantua, Siena, Munich, Monte Carlo, he idly employs his notebook to jot notes which will keep his warm coat of culture sleek and glossy. He takes the usual liberties?writing about his spectacles, the books he takes, Why Not Stay Home, etc.?but still...
...Main Street" an amusing and sophisticated farce on the troubles of Kings and things in general. Menjou lifts a supercilious eyebrow, shrugs a careless shoulder, and winks a languid eye with all the nonchalance generally associated with Kings. His affair with the Swedishly attractive Gretta Nisson has all the clever subtlety that made "The Marriage Circle" popular not so very long ago. Menjou's gallant courtesy in the latter part of the picture comes as near to wistful romance as a King very well can. So there you are. But, oh, yes, these is Bessie Love too, who does...