Word: inept
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Forbes-Robertson supports Henry Irving in Much Ado About Nothing, also painting for Irving the church scene that hangs today in the Players' Club, N. Y. . . . A brother actor is stabbed by a madman. . . . Gilbert quarrels with Sullivan. . . . John Clayton solves the question of corresponding with inept authors: "My dear Sir, I have read your play. Oh! My very dear Sir! Yours truly, John Clayton." In 1885, Mary Anderson tours the U. S. "J. F.-R.," her leading man, is enchanted by American sunshine. General Sherman wrings his hand in St. Louis; General Lee's daughters charm...
...shall I get my child to sleep?" wail many mothers. Last week Dr. E. J. Huenekens of Minneapolis discussed this problem in The Journal of the American Medical Association. He declared that it was often the inept tactics of just such wailing overanxious parents that keep the child awake and derange its nervous system. "I know nothing more pitiful," said he, "than the frequently precocious child brought up in the adult atmosphere of the typical family hotel." He classified two common varieties of harmful parents...
...only Florence Mills familiar to the public is Florence Mills, the darktown strutter, famed Negro cabaret dancer. This fact, disregarded by the composer of the Times inept headline, caused the well-informed readers to gag upon their three-minute eggs. The real bride was, they discovered, white...
...inept revenue agent...
...disheartening to learn that Captain Kidd was only an inept revenue agent, but these histories have their compensations. Henry Morgan of Jamaica comes up to scratch as the bellicose gentleman adventurer. No brigand could be more fearsome than Blackbeard Teach, who festooned his ears with braids from his chin and decked his hat with blazing brimstone. Also, there are the two extraordinary prototypes of the bobbed-hair bandit, Pirates Mary Read and Anne Bonny, who successfully combined marauding and maternity. Author Hurd selects a dozen of the sea-rogues, letting a good tale justify its telling. Author Seitz collects...