Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expected the comedy was carefully and admirably prepared. Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, surely our leading stage and off-stage husband and wife, had the leads. Henry Travers, Pedro de Cordoba and other familiar faces rounded out the cast. Since the play was written so many years ago, it was wisely staged in the fashion of that day, and has become, within the lifetime of the author, a costume play...
...match, like the tragedies of some of the playwrights who preceded Shakespeare, was stretched over five acts or sets, the climax coming where it properly should ?toward the end of the third. Tilden employed a formula already made familiar to the .public in others of his superbly improvised dramas. He began with the artifice of making it appear that he was playing his regular game and that Lacoste was rising to stupendous heights. The little Frenchman, never a brilliant player, was at first so appalled to find himself facing the champion that Tilden had to retard his own strokes...
...woman who had been tried for murder and he himself had been tried for treason and both had survived their tribulations. Nor did those fascinating eyes of his betray that he had come to London desperately intent on speaking the English language with which he was none too familiar, and on negotiating a delicate diplomatic matter of the first importance. Bowing behind this strange figure appeared the diplomatic corpus of M. de Fleurian, the French Ambassador...
...Sister from Paris. Once more the device of inducing a husband to make love to his own wife under the impression that she is a less familiar female is in circulation. As usual it is pretty funny. This particular wife happens to have a twin sister dancing in Paris and a stupid husband. The fact that Constance Talmadge plays both of the sisters is primarily important. The Man Who Found Himself...
...hundreds of thousands of persons, apparently, have suddenly conceived the notion of going to Florida this summer, buying some land on a shoestring, splitting it into lots during the fall, and selling at huge profits to a horde of grateful "investors" this winter. In Wall Street this is a familiar process, known technically as "accumulation" and "distribution". It works as long as the investors get real value for their money, and continues for a certain period there- after until the crop of hopeful lambs begins to thin out. Only these who own no Florida land and have no intensions...