Word: gay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young daughter of an Austrian jeweler. Shubert, a shy and awkward lover, finds a vent for his love in his songs to the fair Mitzi, but their new-found romance is nipped in the bud by a hapless misunderstanding. Mitzi then showers all of her warm affection upon a gay young blade, one Baron Schober, and Shubert, unable to finish his symphony for which she was the inspiration, pines away in heroic devotion. Comic honors go without a doubt to Mitzi's father, old man Krantz, who makes an art of slapstick comedy. His performance as a drunk...
...dreams of springtime and zephyrs and lilacs and green pastures and awake cramped and sore but Madame has abandoned her seige for the nonce and my head is lighter. And up to call for my stiff-front shirt from the launderer, and to Kirkland House tonight to see John Gay there enacted his play "Three Hours After Marriage...
...mixed gender, for it was the annual occasion on which he shares the limelight with its authors, his annual photograph with White House newshawks. The rite performed, the crowd followed him into the oval reception room on the ground floor of the White House. There he sat and made gay quips as if he had nothing in the world to do. Actually he was a dreadfully busy man, for that day he was having a final conference with his Budget Director, appointing and having a secret conference with a new Ambassador to the Soviet Union (see col. 2), appointing...
...vibrant and extravagant Ziegfeld, but Louise Rainer walks off with the show, heavy and expensive as it is. As Anna Held her charm and appeal make Myrna Loy and the most glamorous chorus M.G.M. could collect seem drab. The beautiful, tempestuous little French singer is alternately sunny and gay and llystericat but her line as she watches her beloved husband, Ziegfeld, kiss a drunken chorine, is a real heart breaker--"You might at least have closed the door." Loy is competent as Billie Burke and Frank Morgan is at top form in playing Ziegfeld's friendly rival...
Next Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock for the first time in 200 years, John Gay's "Three Hours After Marriage," will be performed by the Kirkland Houses Dramatic Club, in the Junior Common Room...