Word: glamor
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CYRANO DE BERGERAC?Walter Hampden making this luscious romance an evening of indescribable glamor, even when the spotlight is on his nose...
...Russia grows ever more tragic. In the unbelievably pleasant days before the war its nobles shared with the French the title of intellectual aristocrats of the world, and its vodka addicted peasants moved native and impressive through a thousand gripping novels. A voluntary bath of blood unfortunately washed the glamor from this old Russian life and left the rest of the world amazed and horrified by tales of the temperamental Red gone politically and economically wild. To the conservative the last twist to Russia's woeful thread of fate is given by Charles Recht's report that Russia is using...
Continental critics, however, in whom familiarity has bred the usual contempt, do not hesitate to strip these ancient institutions of the glamor which for the American at least obscures the defects. A French author, in a recent novel, accuses Oxford of all places of regarding the student "as a high school boy . . . who lives together with his fellows under a severe discipline that regulates even the hours of his going out." The student body is cynically divided into athletes and esthetes--of whom the latter are rare. No disillusionment could be more cruel if one is to retain...
General Mulcahy is widely regarded as Ireland's premier soldier. His temporary failure as a Cabinet Minister, due in part to the impetuosity of youth, has not detracted from the glamor which sparks from his sword...
Amelita Galli-Curci sang farewell. Thunderous applause mixed with tears of regret at her departure-not so much for her brilliant coloratura airs, bedizened with strings of pearly scale-flights, as for the glamor which the purity of her tone cast over her simplest encore-ditties. That was perhaps most people's idea of what the "song of the nightingale" should...