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...their common enthusiasm for the game, they find that the spark of their former love is rekindled. The sour grapes are within reach-and sweet. The trouble with the play is that so much of this is expressed in dialog, so little in incident. Still, the dialog is crisp, frequently eloquent; the play intelligent. Alice Brady gives a splendid interpretation of the cynical, disillusioned wife. To John Halliday is due even greater credit for his performance as the perfectly uninterested husband, devoted to his emotional ideal of love...
...neat and very close to the bone: a program to allow university women some escape from the sex-consciousness forced upon them by deans, pastors and mothers; the logic of a star halfback who turns professional (Red Grange) ; a moss-grown professor's vivid, wistful wife; a crisp instructress who secretly, cherishing lost youth's glamor, rouges her ear-tips. Time and again this book comes alarmingly near to telling just what that divine peril, youth's glamor, actually...
Hungarians popped into their purses last week crisp new banknotes denominated in pengoes and garas...
...Editor Marshall Ballard of the New Orleans Item-Tribune. Like any able editor, he had followed the traction situation closely, knew it thoroughly. By telephone he had assembled the streetcar operators, the workers and the city's Commission Council. To them he now marched and with a few crisp words of common sense, a bit of gruff humor and some judicious ejaculations, soon brought concord out of conflict. The strike was off. New Orleans, in hot August, did not walk to its work or play. The carmen adopted a resolution of thanks to Editor Ballard for "injecting" himself into...
...SERIOUS CRADLE SNATCHERS-Ribald doings on Long Island when three mad young men and three bad elderly ladies foregather for the weekend. AT MRS. BEAM'S-An English invention in which Bluebeard in modern clothes invades a stodgy boarding house. WHAT EVERY WOMAN KNOWS-Helen Hayes and a crisp troupe redealing one of J. M. Barrie's winning hands. MUSICAL The song and dance situation should first be investigated via Sunny, Ziegfeld Revue, Passions of 1926 (formerly The Merry World), The Vagabond King, Scandals, Americana, lolanthe...