Word: cutely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great opera houses. The production, in its slight way, perfectly expressed the satirical charm of the libretto. The singers, all promising Juilliard students, had been rehearsed until they were practically free from amateurisms. Jack (at the premiere Soprano Mary Katherine Akins) was believably young but not too cute; the giant (Raymond Middleton) blustered as a giant should. The cow's big scene occurred on the road to market, against a background of misshapen stars. Basso Roderic Cross filled out her front legs, did the philosophizing. The silent hindquarters, unmentioned on the program, were Student Warren...
...Irish policeman, ably acted by Sidney Toler. Messrs. Paul Lukas and Lewis Stone were the tenor and the judge with their usual suave excellence. Mr. Lukas did not sing. Sidney Fox played the young woman and would have been very good indeed if she had not been so cutey-cute. Characteristic shot: Miss Fox lying on the bed thrashing arms & legs and wailing, "I'm not a baby...
...unhappy wives compensate themselves for their connubial discontent by going on shopping sprees; by taking up art, religion, morals, culture, society, politics; by being cute, girlish and kittenish, by nagging, by yammering...
...writers who can monkey with fantasy without getting just too cute for words. Inimitable Max Beerbohm managed it; some still think Sir James Matthew Barrie, Alan Alexander Milne. Christopher Morley have made surprisingly few errors. Fantasian Bruce Marshall follows a less gossamer authority, Gilbert Keith Chesterton; but in his hands the Chestertonian whimsy loses its robustiousness, gets all buttered up with sticky sentiment. Not that Author Marshall cannot be very sharp on occasion, but, like the latter-day Chesterton, he is sharp only with non-Catholic things...
...Norma Shearer in Strangers May Kiss. His qualifications, personal rather than technical, are partly the result of a respectable upbringing in Beacon, N. Y., partly of a long neck which causes his head to incline in a quizzical fashion. His eyes have the kind of crinkle that shopgirls call "cute." When his father, who was a vice president of New York Rubber Co. died, Robert Montgomery left Pawling School where he had learned to play good golf and tennis, took to driving a fertilizer truck. William Faversham let him play five small parts in The Mask and the Face...