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Phil Baker plays snatches on a glittering accordion and bandies old gags and a very few new ones with his fat comic in an upper box. Aileen Stanley croons sundry ballads in the ultra-modulated, effortless manner. Most talented member of the troupe is Wesley Pierce, whose name does not appear in upper case type with the other headliners, but who thoroughly ingratiates himself with audiences by making difficult feats of acrobatic dancing look easy, by singing inane songs pleasingly, by looking cheerfully funny. There are also 44 personable chorus girls, of whom more is to be seen than...
Because it suggests how completely disagreeable the results of man's illicit motions toward pleasure are apt to be, this play is more persuasive than the outline would indicate. George Abbot presents an effortless, natural portrait of the casual Westchester man-of-letters. Edwin Phillips, as the son, is that great dramatic rarity ?an accomplished, likeable adolescent...
...opinion that Kozeluh could beat the Frenchman. He doesn't attempt to blast his opponents off the court and therefore would fall no easy victim to the infallibility style which Cochet plays so faultlessly. His ground and back court strokes are the most beautiful examples of coordination and effortless skill to be seen on a tennis court. They are of a type to keep an opponent away from the net as much as possible and simply wear him down. On the defense he is if anything faster than Cochet and his endurance is little short of marvelous. Whether...
...fame she made as Painter Thomas Wilmer Dewing's precocious daughter, who, at 23, wrote and published A Big Horse to Ride (1911). In the interim she married, bore two daughters, divorced. Lately she lost her second husband, a Dane, to Death. She tells her stories with warm, effortless naturalism but suffers, like so many sincere writers, from a too great dependence on platitudes in dialog...
...days' play in their faces but not in their games. Jones, plump and thoughtful, his cowlick slicing over his eyebrow, stalked after his ball in silence while Farrell, lean and dark, walked with a gloomy air beside him. As beautiful, as effective as ever was Jones's effortless, mechanically perfect game; his drives were as long as ever, his putts as straight and his score-144-identical with that which had put him ahead in the second round. To Jones, winning would have been an honor and satisfaction. To Farrell it meant an honor and satisfaction...