Word: flappering
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...year of her marriage, 1921, was to be the red-letter year of Actress Cornell's theatrical career. As Sydney in A Bill of Divorcement she rationalized, idealized the post-War flapper. Next came two costume parts (in Will Shakespeare and Casanova), two mistakes (The Way Things Happen, The Outsider), a scarlet misstep with David Belasco (Tiger Cats), and then Candida. George Bernard Shaw has never met Katharine Cornell. One look at her photograph, however, and the bearded sage of Adelphi Terrace pronounced her the best Candida who ever played the part...
...tries hard to be an oily villain but his part, like everything else in the story, is cheaply invented and implausible. The only redeeming feature of Call Her Savage is Miss Bow's performance. Looking slightly more blowzy than she did in the days when she played flapper parts in silent cinema, she shows with enthusiastic violence and a flat, tough Brooklyn accent what such flappers can turn out to be when they grow up. Typical shot: Nasa (Clara Bow), insulted in a café, hurling a plate with one hand and striking a waiter with the other. Confessed...
Stroke of Luck tells of Etta Wickham-stead who, to escape poverty, took to the stage. As Ruth Ruthven she had an accidental success in a vampire's part. Producers tried to make her repeat in other plays; but, no flapper, Etta always flops. Her poverty returns, consigns her to rooms in Chelsea where she lives with her cousin, Stocky. Etta is straitlaced, but Stocky is voluptuously convex. One day Etta, returning from an employment agency unemployed, snatches a boy out of the path of Mr. Leverton's car. Flowers follow, and Mr. Leverton follows the flowers. Just when Etta...
...Empire State Building, still unfinished, which at first they take to be some kind of gigantic tree. Father Robinson makes several exploratory trips down into the seething jungle below, gradually comes to the conclusion the place is civilized. He loses his family. is annexed by a masterful flapper who makes him into a popular lecturer and a U. S. enthusiast. When he finds his family again, they are running a speakeasy. The story ends in Morleyesque vein with the Robinsons happily settled on Long Island, operating a League of Nations filling station...
Said one young mother, a former co-ed flapper, "I have not taught my children to say their prayers, but at least I have the grace to be ashamed of it, and I am not married to a Columbia professor either but am the wife of a mere salesman...