Word: delighted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some time uneven and crud; the same mixture of description and narrative and exposition all, brightened by Mr. O'Brien's even present exuberance and enthusiasm. It is this quality above all, we thinly which has made the author so suddenly and deservedly famous. He is always such a delightful companion, so alive, so eager and able to enjoy life, that he could delight us as much if he wrote of the dreariest main Street...
...includes Matt Moore, George Parsons and Gladys Leslie, who aid in the characterization of a piece dependent on human nature and satirical effect for its situations. On the same bill is Bebe Daniels in "Ducks and Drakes", wherein she plays the role of an unconventional young heiress whose chief delight is calling telephone numbers at random and flirting with unknown male voices at the other end of the wire. This photoplay has been announced for a forthcoming production on the stage...
...classes of theatre-goers, "Honors Are Even" should prove a thoroughly enjoyable performance. And for those in particular who delight in sprightly dialogue and revel in a battle of wits as well as of tongues, the play is difficult to surpass...
...this implies quite inevitably another tangent of contact between Mr. Benet and Swinburne, namely Mr. Benet's delight in taming words, in spurring and curvetting them to his desire. It is the sheer zest of youth, for Mr. Benet is young...
...first blow is for the critics, whom he divides into four classes, and then by means of brightly entertaining dialogue, levels them with the very meanest worm that ever crawled the earth's surface. It seems that Shaw took particular delight in "roasting" the critics of whom he has always had small opinion. It was he who once said "Produce me your best critic, and I will criticise his head off." He does. But one wonders if this clan does not like it; if the critics, so often feared, or forgotten, by the playwrights, do not enjoy the play...