Word: gooding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Kenneth MacKenna is a young husband, out to make good in the financial world. To him and to Peggy Wood, his ambitious wife, an appointment to the German office of his firm symbolizes success second only to an appointment to the Shanghai branch. On the day before the appointment is to be announced he resigns his position, feeling that he is not to get the coveted appointment. Next day he tells his wife, is still explaining away when in bursts an old flame. At this point Playwright Strong trephines the husband's skull, lays open the human brain. Centers...
Peggy Wood (whose fame so transcends that of her own husband, John VanAlstyn Weaver, that he has been facetiously called Mister Peggy Wood) makes a good wife; Katherine Wilson is real as the seductress who "makes" a good husband; Playwright Strong has made a good play...
...before the season ends. Already the fourth of the season has come, will go. It presents Walker Whiteside in a comedy first written by Alexandre Dumas, rewritten and presented three decades ago by Charles Coghlan, exhumed by Mr. Whiteside for 1928. The evil men do lives after them, the good is oft interred with their bones...
Rainbow. The movements and the moods of Laurence Stallings are mysterious to contemplate. He wrote Plumes, a good and savage book. He wrote, with Maxwell Anderson, What Price Glory, a strong though over-rated play. Then he played with the moving pictures and the result was The Big Parade. When in Manhattan, he lives at odd hours in an inconspicuous apartment house and it was during his odd hours in the apartment house that he wrote, with Oscar Hammerstein II, Rainbow, a musical play which contains a mule and a catchy song called "I Like...
...intoned her need, no one could understand why it was not instantly gratified; Louise Brown pretended charmingly to be a Colonel's daughter. While its colours were a little too bright, the Rainbow was a pleasant thing to see and, because of its rowdy theme, a good omen for future minstrelsies...