Word: joyous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second and less joyous climax comes a little later, at the end of a long lay's travel by camel in the icy gale of the desert plateau, when Jayne, Mr. Warner's companion "slid from his kneeling camel and fell fiat. He could not walk a step. I stretched him on the snow with his back to the blaze and took off his fur boots to find both feet frozen stiff," What this meant, in the midst of the howling desert, at that time of the year, with little food and less fuel and no medical attention is hard...
...show Douglas Fairbanks how to be a hero amongst daredevils, John Barrymore how to be a lover amongst women. His is an ironical failure. Though personally executing all the heroic acrobatics, he does not film real. One misses the "alive" manner that makes Actor Fairbanks' extravaganzas seem plausible, joyous adventure. Though perhaps foremost dream lover of the fair half of the U. S., he does not achieve the insolent elegance of a Don Juan like John Barrymore's. Hence, Bardelys is not magnificent...
...Thing. Sandor Turai (Holbrook Blinn), like Playwright Ferenc Molnar himself, is an urbane gentleman, an excellent dramatist. Therefore, he handles a scandal as he would a theatrical situation; and in doing so, affords the audience a play within a play, an agreeable course in dramatic construction, a joyous evening in the theatre...
...during a breakdown, lately brought it to completion at a retreat in the woods of Maine. A lightsome, fanciful opera this Henchman will surely be, judging by the quality of Deems Taylor's compositions to date (Through the Looking Glass, The Siren Song, The Chambered Nautilus, etc.). A joyous, spirited and perhaps abandoned opera it is likely to be, if Poetess Millay has written as she was wont. Of burning her candle at both ends for the "lovely light" it gave, she used to rhyme. She has raced barefoot at dawn through the Bois de Boulogne, and elsewhere. When...
Recently music lovers and joyous undergraduates alike, were pleased at the news that Arthur Honegger, famed modern French composer, is constructing an opera about the theme of a U. S. football match. He has already done a "symphonic movement" representing a locomotive, "Pacific 231." Last week Herbert M. Johnson, manager of the Chicago Civic Opera Company, landed from Italy in Manhattan, announced that Mary Garden "is tremendously enthusiastic over the potentialities of still another new opera Judith which is to be her piece de resistance in the coming season,"- the Judith of Arthur Honegger...