Word: flapperisms
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...debutante years" and is approaching "the gardening, auction, book-club age of thirty," receives a love letter and a piece of Bokhara embroidery from a somewhat sentimental young man in India whom she has kept dangling for years in a state of miserable uncertainty. Her niece, who is a flapper, spills a bottle of ink on the Bokhara embroidery. Then, and not until then, does the heroine realize that she is in love with the young man. Not much of a plot, as you can see; but the story is cleverly (if in places somewhat affectedly) written, and is full...
...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...
...himself, is supposedly the bearer of the stellar part. While not detracting from his marked ability, yet advertising Mr. Holmes as the single star is a deception--everyone in the cast is entitled to such distinction. Seldom has Boston seen a more charming ingenue than Florence Shirley, as the Flapper. She appeals without being saccharine, and is so attractively vivacious that it is no small wonder the movie magnates have not attempted to rob the "legitimate" of another "queen." And so on right down the program, Charles Abbs as Pops, Lillian Lawrence as Grandma, the demon and John Hogan...