Word: cutenesses
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...Madame Behave" Julian Eltinge is allowed to do all the cute things that Sid Chaplin forgot to do in "Charley's Aunt." There are some moments of genuine slap-stick merriment, when Julian's trousers peep from below his skirt and Ann Pennington treats him like a sister. The latter incidently does a near- ly perfect Charleston: one of the two things for which she is noted. But where as Sid Chaplin made an extremely homely and ridiculous woman, Julian Eltinge is far too natural and graceful to be interesting. It is only as a men that he seems ridiculous
...think: "Why, yes-I guess I will." You remember, vaguely, bookplates you have known-heavy engravings of armorial bearings in large volumes bound in calf-cute, little bookplates, nauseatingly quaint, with florid mock-Old-English lettering, " From among Ye Bookes of Cleo. S. Eiswasser "-sentences written with a damp pencil on the title pages of schoolbooks ("If my name you wish to see-," "If this book should chance to roam," etc.)- and shudder. Then, perhaps, you happen to go to such an exhibition of bookplates as was recently held at the New York Public Library, and realize that there...
...beastly clever and cute...
...found her as cute and lovely as on the screen, but much more beautiful, for the deep violet of her eyes, the gold of her hair and the rose petal softness of her skin are impossible to perceive on the silver sheet." Imagine...
There is no loss without some small gain, This afternoon at Professor Rand's lecture on Virgil this was again demonstrated. Arriving at four o'clock I got a good seat, at 4.10 an undergraduate came in. I know he was an undergraduate because he wore those cute little knee pants. Draping his coat over the seat next to me he took the next and sat guard over the one on his other hand. As the hall filled several tried to take these seats--ranging from professors to those less learned but more insistent. To all with but two exceptions...