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...settings, lighting, and costumes are, as usual, very good. They are needed in this case to furnish the gilt frame for the picture, and they do their work naturally and unobtrusively. The stage manager is to be congratulated on his good sense in not trying to force "atmosphere" in the shape of a doubtful gondola or some such operatic bugbear, but in allowing the picturesque serenade group alone to set the proper mood...
...actors are given a harder task. It is not easy to be a clever, animated picture, even with a gilt frame for adornment and it is, on the whole, rather surprising that they seem as human as they do. Beyond a doubt the reason for this lies in the skill of Collier, Burrell, Sanchez, and of Miss Googins. Collier especially, in gesture and intonation, carries into the part of the liar a vivacity and sang-froid that saves several dull scenes and heightens them all--a performance ably abetted by Burrell's lesser role. The Club will lose a great...
...Brisbane, Hearst editor, said I was ' as sincere and honest a man as ever believed in his own opinions on things about which he could not possibly know anything!' '' Francis Ouimet: " Mayor Curley of Boston presented me with a black box containing a silver and gilt key to the city, in recognition of my service as a golfer on the Walker Cup (earn in England." Thomas Gibbons, challenger for the world's heavyweight boxing-championship: "Mayor Nelson of St. Paul gave me a good luck token before my departure for Shelby, Mont...
...American, practicing a wicked wink. Now ] 11 see some snappy stuff! " He went?and discovered himself viewing a gay little piece entitled Pasteur, a review of that scientist's early life and struggles, all full of the most interesting information on pasteurizing, but with not a pair of gilt slippers or a double-entendre in the cast. So, just to avoid the occurrence of such sad mishaps to those of TIME's clientele who intend to trip over the water this summer, a sketchy review of the Paris theatrical season seems in order. Aham...
...here to get across the plain, incontrovertible facts in such terms that even your facile, plasticene minds cannot mistake them. Your faculty are nothing but puppets, and you, fools, you are like the little boys in the streets who pay in the hard earned nickels at the gilt ticket-window, to gape at the sham wonders put before you in the guise of truth...