Word: glittering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...duchess is the slow bulging hub of a wheel whose whirling spokes are a glitter of medieval cities and country castles, deaths and tournaments and plagues. Jews who lent money and princes who rode through summer dusts or winter snows, bishops who begat bastards, kings who kept mistresses and died of wounds; all the remote and entangled brightness of a century, like all past
...good nature. After she retaliates by taking advantage of his credulity, gently implying the presence of a lover where no lover exists, the last fadeout shows his boots and her slippers nestling together outside the door of their room. The events leading up to the reconciliation have the glitter and charm, thinned somewhat by a mediocre medium, of the writings of Arthur Schnitzler. Even as an orchestra conductor, a profession of which one is led to suspect he understands not even the rudiments, Dandy Menjou is suave enough mentally and facially to make the street sheiks, when they leave...
...transcend the tawdry banality of the Revue in which she appears, the ornate ensembles in which she is dressed, and the characterless puppets who support her. On the screen she had as distinct an individuality as Theda Bara ever had, but on the Metropolitan stage she was unable to glitter as in "Fascination" or "Peacock Alley". The romance of the Merry Widow waltz left the "Publix" patrons cold, whereas less black velvet and fluffy chiffon and more red hot syncopation a la her Ziegfield "Follies" days would have attracted the thunderous applause with which the "Publix" audience greets atrocious slapstick...
...morning on a ferry; of the chimes of St. Patrick blended with a Gregorian Chant; of Pell Street, Manhattan's Chinatown, and an old Chinaman playing on his single-stringed fiddle; of Greenwich Village and its weighty dramas made of little lives; of Times Square, its crowds, its glitter, its noise...
...Handel, Stravinsky, Aaron Copland and Saint-Saens, the first was the best. Beside the Firework-Music (written so long ago as 1749 to celebrate the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle) Stravinsky's virtuosity seemed pale, Copland's Scherzo, flimsy. Pianist Josef Hofmann gave the evening a special glitter by an interpretation of the C Minor Concerto which was more profound than Saint-Saens'music...