Word: joying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chanin's, West 46th St. Whether they are "Mozart" or "L'Illusioniste" or one of their revues they will be just as good, and the play just as bad. They're a joy to watch...
Piggy features Sam Bernard for the many who find joy in his sputtering-and-raging farcicality In this instance, as the plutocratic Mr. Hoggenheimer, he is bent upon forcing his son to marry a title but finally consents to true love with a shop girl. The best part of the show is the dancing chorus. Few stages can boast such dashing sweeps of color and movement. John Boyle created them...
...charm of his personality to which was added the grace of his physique and the bouyancy and simplicity of his nature was a constant inspiration and joy to those with whom he was associated. No alumnus was more devoted to the University. His death leaves a vacancy which will be most difficult to fill...
...Allen, in a Buster West sort of tumble, superbly. At the rise of the curtain the play achieves a headlong velocity which it strives to keep up all evening for the most part with good success. This swift tempo is largely due to the chorus, the "Twelve Judy Joyous Joy Walkers", very rightly headlined. Almost everyone of the dozen, besides doing splits, turning cartwheels, and kicking head-high, does a specialty of some sort. Together they frisk and float about the stage with a joyful zest and verve, doing more than their share of the work. Moreover, they...
...gave dull plays with inept actors. Tens of thousands of Viennese apartments stood vacant. Viennese husbands moped; without the competition of smart Jewesses, their wives wore Scotch tweeds, Alpine woollens, no cosmetics. The tearful partings of polyracial relatives only faintly reflected the hardships suffered later by ladies of joy, jewelers, restaurateurs, bartenders. The newspapers became colorless. Gone even from politics was the zest, the vivifying friction of the Aryans' perfect complements in life, the Semites. Poverty and gloom filled Vienna...