Word: coquettishness
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...wooden way in which Ralph Bellamy plays the soldier make The Magnificent Lie seem trite and unmagnificent. The role of the cabaret girl was perhaps selected for Ruth Chatterton because it gave her a chance to display her overestimated versatility: she uses stock French mannerisms, hisses in a coquettish way when impersonating Duchene. Long publicized as "first lady of the cinema" Actress Chatterton has lately been the subject of Hollywood gossip. It was rumored that Warner Brothers had "stolen" her from Paramount; then, that Warner Brothers had agreed to give her back. Actress Chatterton's Paramount contract expires...
Whimpering Tenors. In Moscow one-time Soviet Minister of Education Anatole Lunacharsky said, after listening to a pre-release of several new U. S. singing films: "They were spoiled for me by the vulgar, overfed faces of the tenors. . . . I could readily dispense with their tasteless mimicry, their coquettish rolling of eyes, their whimpering graces...
...last week, to please Publisher William Randolph Hearst, wrote coquettish Lady Grace Drummond Hay of the corps of Hearst correspondents on the Hearst-arranged globe trot of the Graf Zeppelin...
...with fond motherliness had idealized him in her novel, was the original model for the lacy-collared, golden-curled Lord Fauntleroy, who rankled little boys of another generation. His metamorphosis gave the reporters opportunity to contrast his bald pate to the departed curls; his tall height to the coquettish figure of the book. Vivian himself whimpered, "No matter where I go or what I do, there is always the reference to the fact that I was the germ of the Fauntlerpy story. ... It wasn't I-" his voice broke. "I wasn't like that...
...hobo, and the proprietress out of dangerous holes. Then there are the villains, well drawn, better acted, and best cast, and the local characters highly indigenous and the comic prize fighter, "Bull" Moran, et altera. Young Jerry Devine, as the hero and heroine idolater and the son of the coquettish proprietress, is, however, one of the chief stars. His juvenile acting is absolutely genuine and has much charm withal. And with these bouquets distributed, one must retire. "Weeds" is not a brilliant or sensational play, but it affords as good a measure of diversion as many a more pretentious offering...