Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...come to life upon the stage. Though the authors (Walter Prichard Eaton and David Carb) protest volubly that the play is not a dramatization of Strachey, it is the readers of his book who will be particularly attracted. The play has caught all the quaint charm of the girl who developed retiring domesticity into a regal legend. It was Strachey who popularized the legend in America...
...classée, A Texas Nightingale), is noted on the program as the individual originally responsible. The play looks pretty much as though Arthur Hopkins (producer) took Ethel over to the Akinses one afternoon last Summer and said to Zoe, " Run up to your playroom, like a good girl, and bring down something bright for Ethel...
...Holy Grail appears as the pivot of the play. It turns up in the dirty East Side nest of a gang of crooks. One crook steals it from another. Unfortunately for him the smarter swindler's girl who is deeply religious learns through her priest the identity of the vessel The conflict between them, falling slightly at a rather conventional climax, provides the drama...
...summed up in one of Caleb's own speeches; and if in literature, as in shipbuilding, there were more thorough, sincere productions of this sort, more shipyard and less "gingerbread an paint", there would likewise be less hue and cry about the decadence of American letters. "Well, 'Glory', ole girl . . . they went an' busted up the shipyard; they went an' filled the harbor with bo'ts made o gingerbread an paint, that come a-scurryin' back to their moorin's a fore it blows hard enough to muss a woman's hair. Not much like ye, them yachts...
...characterizations are very well done. Walter Gilbert is a handsome movie hero; Mark Kent is his valet, who is responsible for the entire action; Adelyn Bushnell plays a screen struck girl who is madly in love with the hero, Garrison Page (in his latest picture, "Huckleberry Harry, the Heartbreaker"). Miss Bushnell and Jill Middleton have an extremely humorous crying dialogue, Hero, maidens in distress, villyuns, a blackmail plot, suspicion,--it was an elegant evening...