Word: coquettishness
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Margaret Sullivan, who struggled through the stage version of Samuel Taylors' concoction, can well sympathize with her plight. The story is a sorry garment indeed for leading ladies of such charm. If Miss Hepburn shows it off to better advantage, she has her tender years and coquettish personality to thank. Youth and coquettry are most appealing, but someone should commend to Miss Hepburn the additional value of acting. Almost everyone knows that she is a fine actress and a little proof would scotch the few contrary rumors...
...Augusta, Ga. told of a patient whom they called Eve White who had a second personality, "Eve Black," and a third known simply as "Jane." Prim and proper Eve White seemed to be unaware of the existence of Eve Black, but in the Eve Black phase she became coquettish and informal to the point of recklessness. Moreover, Eve in the third person. Sample quote: "When Black knew Eve White, and spoke of her I go out and get a little polluted, she wakes up with the hangover and timidly wonders what in hell's made her so damned sick...
...ladies. Each of the play's six actresses add enough of their own charm so any minor faults are easily excusable. Especially appealing in a minor part is Suzanne Chappell Finch as an aunt of the heiress. And Suzanne Flinton, Dare Taylor, and Elayne Coyne are respectively clever, coquettish, and cheery in their supporting roles. Danielle Holmgren as Aunt Penniman, perhaps acts a bit too much at one pitch. She is a pert, dove-like person but her fluttering should be decreased, as it is in the last few scenes, to achieve a more sympathetic characterization...
...concerto contest, soloed in the Schumann Concerto. The Radcliffe Senior started shakily, but after she regained her composure in the middle of the first movement, she made the old warhorse kick its heels. Purists may object to the more liberties she took with the score; but after hearing her coquettish interpretation of the second movement, I cast my vote for impurity...
...much Mrs. Konow's looks -although she cut a striking figure with her prematurely grey hair, her creamy complexion, coquettish eye and dashing figure. It was that Mrs. Konow thought the Senators were wonderful; she had spent hours the day before hanging on their every word as they growled at witnesses, and had giggled in delight at their every witticism. When she was sworn in she giggled again and said in happy Slavic accents: "I am having lately a nickname. I am called 'Oilboat Olga...