Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...commence. The first number, by Stravinsky, will be composed of four parts an overture "Sin fonia", a Seranats after Pergolesi, Sohezine, and Finale The second part of the Ballet is entitled "Casella", in two movements Among the titles of the subdivisions are a "Sicillan Dance" "The Story of the Girl Abducted by Pirates", and a Peasant's Drinking Song...
...There is more liberty for youth here than in France," declared Madame when asked to compare the American boy and girl with French youth. "And it develops character quicker. The young girl in France is kept in seclusion until her marriage. If I had a daughter, I would raise her in the American fashion. All but smoking--it is wrong for girls. As for night clubs, I think that the modern boy and girl should be crusted. There must be confidence in one's blood...
...never wants to return to England except to visit friends. She enjoys the Russian movies and shows and has just received a cheap ticket to the first night grand opera ballet. The children are already talking Russian, and the 9-year-old girl is also learning German and music...
...Devil in the Cheese (produced in Pasadena a year ago). In Tom Cushing's play, a piece of cheese before bedtime brings on a good dream in which the secret chambers of a girl's mind are explored. Everywhere, the seeker finds the radiant image of her lover enshrined in fancy as President of the U. S., single-handed conqueror of South Sea Island tribes, hero in all things. This sublimated suitor is, in reality, a ship's steward, opposed by the girl's father who prefers a colorless favorite of his own choosing. The action...
...most innocently poisonous characterizations ever done. Some of her others are: acidulous Aunt Sarah, 99, with parrot and enema bags; dependable, blockheaded Charlotte, who marries Hoagland Driggs; the fat little heir across the street; wan, wishful Carrie, Aunt Sarah's slave; and-flashes-sultry, vivid Opal Mendoza, "bad girl," the only one whose words comfort Joe at all; squat, square, red-faced Effa, "simply killing," a perpetual circus, whose salt tears run into her broad mouth when she smells the lilacs and knows she will never have a lover...