Word: flapperisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...falls in love with and finally marries a pretty governess. But without the element of adolescence the plot would be too commonplace for mention, so the action revolves chiefly on the sentimental affairs of the 17-year-old Bobble Wheeler and his sister Cora, who has just attained the flapper age of sweet sixteen. The play is a comedy of incidents in the life of the Wheeler family; Bobble is burdened with the dark crime of having kissed the housemaid in "a moment of sensuosity," as he tragically confesses, while passionately in love with the governess, Miss Pinney,--"the most...
...from school by an epidemic of the measles, changes a peaceful home into a madhouse; it is her romantic notions that bring about the situations of the play. The fads and fancies of a modern girl at that interesting point in her life, when she is no longer a flapper and not yet a debutante, are remarkably well presented by Miss Helen Hayes. In "Dear Brutus" and. "Clarence" Miss Helen Hayes has done some very clever work, but as Bab she approaches the heights of genius; the least one can say of her is that she is admirably fitted...