Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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SEVENTH HEAVEN-Helen Menken creating for herself a lasting name as the gutter-girl of Paris who knew the infinite value of faith...
...first place, Molnar. He has dramatized the insanity of a young girl gone mad from unrequited love. He has, with the complete coöperation of the actor currently concerned, made her lover so grossly unattractive that she seems a fool to tolerate him, much less dive in the Danube on rejection. Subsequently she thinks herself an angel, wears feather wings and drinks glasses of milk at stated intervals...
Windows. The Theatre Guild opened its sixth season with a capable little comedy by John Galsworthy. It is a thesis play, indicating that mortals fail to face facts; the windows through which they look at life are dusty. Chief exponent of the argument is an unfortunate girl who takes domestic service after a prison term. She is promptly discovered in the arms of the son of the house. While these things furnish two hours of agreeably interesting conversation, it cannot be said that the plan is either philosophically or dramatically momentous...
...society, with his love Lelia. The dashing lady was "a fair rose of Briton, rather false hair like we see advertised, her somewhat perfect nose would scarce be noticed to have been turned up, owing to sleeping on her stomach". At the same time "she was just a lowborn girl, but none could beat her at playing the piano". And Mr. Withersq is no piker. He crashes right into a Bohemian festival the first night out, visits the exotic "Mauve Loft" the next morning and by evening has been officially appointed Head Poet of England...
...author's handling of character and conversation is conspicuously fine. A bit: "There are two ways for a girl to get a fur coat, and one of them is to buy it. Burns Mantle: " Simple, direct and honest...