Word: facials
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Huysmans claimed that what man wanted was faith; Gissing believed in purity, and Lawrence in a supreme intimacy. "What Men Want", the other theatre offering, is a superb compendium on the whole question. Disguise it, as the producer attempts to do, with the facial expressions of the sophisticated and the dialogue of a gangster melodrama, embarrass it with one long and gay party after another, what men want is still "It", is the humble impression gleaned from a thoroughly unenlightened hour in the fifth row. Cynicism, real live raciness, speed, boredom, naivete, a boy and a girl on horseback...
...Bretton Woods, N. H., Miss Marjorie McManamy lost control of her car when a squirrel jumped into her lap. The car was wrecked, Miss McManamy suffered facial abrasions...
...world's most famed plastic surgery hospital, Queens Hospital for Facial Injuries at Sidcup, Kent, England, ceased functioning last autumn. From its open-ing in 1917 it handled 19,000 cases. Its most skilled staff member, Dr. Harold Delf Gillies, sometimes performed 30 separate operations on a single case. He, 48 last week, born at Dunedin, N. Z., is now plastic surgeon to three London hospitals and to the Royal Air Force. U. S. dentists know him as an honorary member of their national association. Sportsmen recall him. as playing golf for England against Scotland...
...mysteriously salable banalities of musical comedy are further exemplified in Jonica by a song entitled "I Want Someone," the queer facial contortions of Joyce Barbour, who really can be pretty, and a wedding parade in which the girl from the convent is propelled, by coincidence, into matrimony...
...their wives motherly and even more homely." Lest it should be misunderstood, the Star added, for the benefit of visitors weak in the King's English, that "The connotation of 'homely' changes in crossing the Atlantic, and in England has of course no reference to facial appearance...