Word: doesn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these, much touted songs, the hit of the show, taking it for granted that the producers will force Fair Lady down the threat of Broadway, will probably be "It," a very clever adaptation of Elinor Glyn's article on sex appeal. Has she got it? Then she doesn't need good clothes, good looks or even a good name. She's there Miss Mildred Parishette, the heroine of the show, just hasn't got IT. In riding breeches, she almost captures IT, but when she appears as Margarite, she looks like a debutante at the end of a hard winter...
...this one of his "pleasant," plays, had taken advantage of every possible bit of humor--humor of the broadest sort. He doesn't smile at Raina's medieval fancy about the chivalrous knight who gallops up to the enemy on horseback and kills a hundred men with one stroke of its sword instead the laughs long and loud. In the preface the play he says: "I am not convinced that the world is only held together by force of unanimous, strenuous, eloquent, trumpet tongued lying;" and he goes on to make this statement more emphatic Everybody in the play...
...news alone-even if they are news. Women read TIME and don't you think we want to try to keep women from being so doggoned sophisticated and hard-boiled and modern ? Let's keep them on the pedestal we used to have 'em on. Sophistication doesn't be- come women, now does it? Innocence does...
...delivery. There is the Father, Sir Thomas, self-made, a figure in the stock-market, and knighted for his services to the government in backing up the front. Lady Wikens rather flounders through the chapters, endeavoring to find out what it's all about. She does and she doesn't. The three children are Dick, Tom, Madge. Reading from left to right they are a D. S. O., a "conchy,' and a V. A. D., a fairly representative crib of the sort of thing one could or could not do back...
...building project of the Lady of Learning. "Why," they ask, "did not John Harvard dig into his pockets and save the day." The answer is obvious, John Harvard dug, and well, he went back to his chair before University Hall and mused in economics. At least he doesn't have to look at the wealthy lady's portals, he wanted for his own. And he has the new bell to listen to Affairs might be much worse...