Word: deft
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chatty theatre editor of the New York Evening World, the play is redundant, filled with burdensome explanations of obvious situations. The predicament of Husband Carter is invested with little or no dramatic dignity. Tripping delicately between silliness and indelicacy, as if performing an egg dance, Richard Gordon gives a deft, sincere but inevitably useless performance as Husband Carter...
Masculinity characterizes the Wills game. No woman hits a ball so hard. Whenever she can she practices with a man, because "it is the best training, the men are naturally more strong, though not always so deft" Her training is strictly a personal matter. She dislikes to think of people reading of what she likes to eat (string beans, chocolate ice cream) and drink (milk). About her other likes and dislikes she is less reticent. Yellow is her favorite color (see cover). Telephone books are her pet aversion. It is hard for her to find numbers because she does...
Marquis Preferred. For a long time Adolphe Menjou's epigrams in pantomime have found expression in scenarios plotted by Ernest Vajda and directed by Frank Tuttle. Deft productions, each containing the same ingredients of wit and social charm, have followed each other like a string of sausages coming out of a hopper. This time a nobleman's servants, knowing that if they let him go bankrupt they will lose the money he owes them, form a corporation to save him from his creditors on condition that he marry an heiress they pick out for him. Once more Menjou...
...Volpone" is a long and beautifully bred sneer, tuned within an octave whose extremes are its own deft slapstick and the high cyniscism of "Caprice". Ben Jonson gave the Fox his being and his taste to trick the would be inheritors, who licked his hands for the delicious death sweat. Since then "Volpone" has been through the adaptation of Stefan Sweig and the translation of Ruth Langner. Even now, in the buzz of Mosca the Gadfly, the pandering servant who wins gold for Volpone to dirk him in the end with his own weapons of pen, ink and attested parchment...
Item: Editor Renaud now and then turns a deft stanza of melodious poetry...