Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Conducted by Fate, Kate's artist, Chris Fenno, no longer a boy, suddenly appeared as Anne's fiance and mother-panic had an unpleasant struggle with mother-revulsion. To tell the girl about a certain week in Normandy would have been to lose her. The family minister contributed some sound observations on "sterile pain" and panic, thus reinforced, carried the day. Not heroic, perhaps, but who shall say unnatural...
...fine needle of discernment with the wiry fibres of reality. Thunderstorm begins as an idyll-an intelligent young English couple basking beneath the comic benevolence of their Italian servants, emotional 'Vanna and heroic Ettore. Basking with them are semi-permanent guests, a durable male friend, a spirited girl cousin. To the baskers blows a breeze-news of a desirable position for the host in England. A jog is indicated in everyone's life. Clouds follow the breeze, each basker having a selfish reaction to this jog. Thunderheads follow clouds, each basker lying to himself about his selfish reaction...
...tells the story of a fox-no histrionic creature, in whose caperings those of humanity are derisively reflected, but a sharp red beast out of the fen. Captured by a woodcutter, he bites a baby, kills a cock, runs away to the woods again. Meanwhile, one Terynka-a girl as pretty, wild, red, sly', as the little fox-has been misled by a rogue who, meeting the fox in the woods, destroys him also. Thus Janáĉek, now 70, at once the oldest and the most vital of all Czech composers, has turned back to romantic music...
...Manicure Girl. It all simmers down to whether or not you like Bebe Daniels. For, in these days of many cinemas, it is difficult to become burningly excited over the story of a poor girl, her poor but honest lover, her married pursuer. An impression of Manhattan life is offered for one who has never been there. There is some agreeable comedy; chiefly, there is Bebe Daniels...
...Haverford College (Haverford, Pa.), Charles C. Sellers, senior, was awarded his diploma in absentia. Sellers was, however, present at the exercises, completely disguised as a girl. He heard himself lauded, awarded three prizes, heard the class poem written by him read by another. Explained his mother, Mrs. Sellers: "Charles is exceedingly shy. Also, he has a sense of humor...