Word: gay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Demands in the country at large are far behind those at Harvard and Wellesley. The "Prisoner's Song" and "Ramona" still have a large sale, but are completely dead so far as college buyers are concerned "Gay Caballero" is a best seller at present, but only two have been sold at Harvard and Wellesley...
...Junior Dance. Add this to the financial embarrassment with which all Dance Committees are faced, and the further fact that social fare palatable to the most diverse tastes is rather abundant, and the reason for attempting to sustain the breath of life in a superannuated whiff from the gay nineties seems to be ill founded. (Name withheld by request...
...lose his son but he was glad to retain the beautiful, the charming lisa. Hers was the last entrance onto the stage; she mixed Albert a drink of bicarbonate of soda, while he sat playing the piano, and she handed it to him with a look at once teasing, gay, quizzical and tender; as he turned to take his medicine, his eyebrows rose with gratitude and the curtain fell. There are those plays so delicately, so truly funny that one forgets to laugh until a perhaps clumsy joke, inserted for no other purpose, ignites the fuse of amusement that...
...deck were wives and husbands and children with hearts gay and free...
Operettas, of course, are all absurd and The Red Robe, adapted from Stanley Weyman's novel, is no exception. Yet it made a good play 25 years ago, in which William Faversham starred, and now it makes a gay and gaudy minstrel show for Walter Woolf. In the story of Gil de Berault, who was sentenced to death for duelling and paroled by Cardinal Richelieu in time to achieve fortune and a beautiful partner for the final curtain, there is proper material for brocaded dresses, sword play, romantic songs and fustian foolery. All this has been contributed. Helen Gilliland...