Word: deft
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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EXPRESSING WILLIE? A delightfully sensitive study of the havoc wrought by temperament in a plain business man. BEGGAR ON HORSEBACK? Deft and biting satire, wreaking a Freudian revenge on the Rotary clubs...
...Burrell '24, who edited the translation, has brought the play to us in speech that is at once deft and forcible. He knows how to talk in terms of the theatre--and that is not to talk too much. The subtlety of the dramatist is never shrouded by the verbosity of the translator, and it is not the latter's fault that you are at first plunged into the long-winded legal history of the famous Gregor vs. Pruss case. However, you soon emerge with the blessed realization that it doesn't matter a whit if you did not follow...
...mantle of Coquelin, distinguished French comedian, is considered to have descended on him, and despite his 62 years, De Feraudy enjoys giving it playful shakes. He has the twinkling mischievousness of Foxy Grandpa. Age cannot wither the vitality of his acting, with its spontaneous but deft gestures, including the forefinger laid aside the nose or gracefully scratching the ear. A delightful Gallic casualness pervades his performance, so that he does not hesitate, if the impulse takes him, to close a door carelessly left open in the middle of his speech, or to scratch his ankle while trickling around the stage...
Helen Hayes is radiantly demure as the flapper, as deft and cocky as a bird. Hers is the only real spark of life in the piece. O. P. Heggie is condemned to suffocate his gorgeous Dickensian caricaturing in a stuffed shirt role. Kenneth MacKenna and Gilda Leary are others who try valiantly to keep their bearings...
...rival and Whereas he did not promptly strike that rival dead, he was therefore turned out of the swaggering little Southern town of Magnolia, therefore he Resolved to become a devil among the Mississippi gamblers. A pull at a trigger is to him then as a flick of his deft cambric handkerchief, he worsts that most delectable of all villains, Noah Beery, and returns to wipe his feet on the top piece of his rival. The whole is served in Southern style, with a beautiful, beautiful heroine, and dialogue in which there "ah no ahs." So once more Rhodemont...