Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...searching around for nice things to say about this week's Fenway program, it seems on the whole best to dwell on Leatrice Joy's "Made for Love" and leave "The Red Kimono" (Is that the way you spell "Kimono"?) discreetly in the background. Discussing even this one, it will be necessary to tread cautiously. It would be easy to get unpleasant, and that wouldn't do at all because just now the Playgoer editor is conducting a campaign to be as nice as possible to everybody and try to remove this department's reputation for cynicism and general...
...begin with, "Made For Love" has to do with the pyramids, desert Bedouins, the Valley of the Kings, and such things, which, as everyone knows, are fascinating subjects and enough to make a wow of any movie. Leatrice Joy is a sinuous and seductive heroine with a surprising hair cut. She doesn't look at all, like a star of other days staging a come-back. Opposite her la Edmund Burns whose handsome face has a tendency to fall into a peculiar half sour expression which reminded us of the new explanation of the physiognomy of a certain famous--well...
...youth; it takes 33 years off from my age and associates me with the healthy and vigorous maturity of the class of '89. Dr. Faust sold himself to the devil to gain the results, and the use he made of it sent him to Hell. But the inspiration and joy of camaraderie with the class of '89 is the full realization of the Yale spirit...
Fenway--"The Red Kimona" with Priscilla Bower, and "Made for Love" with Leatrice Joy: To be reviewed this week...
Fridays for Catholics and Anglicans are days of abstinence through the year, for pious folk would keep in perpetual grief for the crucifixion of Jesus on Good Friday. Arid yet in certain years one Friday becomes a day of joy of feasting-the Friday on which Christmas falls, as this year. The Nativity blots out the shadow of death; birth is more important than death...