Word: clevernessing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Undeniably industrious, able, ambitious, well-born,* clever, Robert Clarkson has attracted his quota of envy. He is often seen edging, a few minutes late, into his box at polo, at the horseshow, at the theatre, at prizefights. Recognizing him at these events, casual acquaintances wonder when he finds time to do his work. They would probably fail to identify his round gay face of a somewhat sophisticated cherub with the intent, solemn, face which, late at night has been seen bending over Robert Clarkson's desk...
Jacques Deval wrote the original play, and Wingate and our old friend P. G. Wodehouse the English version. The three have produced a sparkling bit of dialogue and clever situations with a very proper sense of restraint and emphasis...
...autobiography: "Some day you will read in the papers that D. L. Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now." If this last statement is true, Moody, apprised of Author Bradford's clever, scholarly history, is possibly both surprised and indignant...
...newspapers themselves must work out some control of their news columns that will prevent them from playing the game of the clever defendant and his unscrupulous associates...
...family's honor. He marries a squaw to save her life. When he is about to return to the vacated earldom, the squaw commits suicide. Numerous songs, concocted by Charles Rudolf Friml whose efforts crowned The Vagabond King, are thoroughly inspiriting. These, together with gay and gaudy costumes, clever settings, an energetic and willing chorus, make The White Eagle satisfactory if somewhat grandiloquent entertainment...