Word: dusted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Humor benighted in a wilderness of words. Philosophy as ancient sit is petty a more frequent use of capitals than custom (aristocratic custom, but custom nevertheless) allows--that is the Proletarian who for the first time wipes the dust from his shoes and steps into the prior. Nor does he seem a quite at home, naturally enough. Fingers that are more used to the aigrette, than to the pen do not response easily to the new demands; his humor somehow lacks that airy step of one who is well-fed and content with the universe. Yet now that this creature...
...characters in "Star Dust" are real people for Miss Hurst has a way of pointing out the essential things of there make-up and with broad stroke can quickly conjure up a picture of person and personality that lives. Lilly herself--the reader can feel all her emotions, sympathizes with her; her mather, dear bossy old soul, whose religion is housekeeping, and her lovable and gentle old father, who make a bit of money in spite of himself out of the war. Her husband, the tupication of the respect able business and fireside homebody. The scores of people Lilly comes...
...very interesting tale artfullyand pieasantly told, is Miss Hurt's "Star Dust." Yet it is more than that, for like "Main Street" it present a vivid protest against the commonplaceness, the narrow mindedness, that holds the majority of us down to a life of anotony and mundane, materialist achievement. It is a clear cut cross section view of the experiences and struggles of one who, failing to attain for herself expression of herself, gives all that a woman can give that her daughter may grow up to know the freedom and deliciousness of being herself...
There is something Deburaulike in "start Dust" in that the child has the success that is beyond the reach of the apparent, in that the parent lives in the being of the child. One suffers with Lilly Penny in her failure to do some thing great herself, and rejoices in the farsightedness she shows in prepare her danghte for the career she could not have. One wonders if perhaps in making a beautiful personality of her daughter in education her to be great sincere the mother has not done greater thing than if she had herself achieved success...
...sweet. As for her choice of fruits, it is most commendable. The advertising number headed by Mrs. John Thayer, as Jim Wiggin, is a cleverly conceived number. Miss Cornelia Hallowell as Aunt Jemimah gives an appreciative audience a good chance to laugh; the chance is not overlooked. The Gold Dust Twins, Miss Rosanna Fiske and Miss Dorothy Neyhart, and Miss Linda Wellington, as Cream of Wheat are the other black-faced comediennes. If they can all flap pan-cakes, wash dishes, and cook cereal as well as they act, the girls of this number deserve laurel wreaths. The Drill this...