Word: kittenish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Musetta in Puccini's Boheme should be a kittenish, sweet-voiced soubrette. Italian Soprano Augusta Oltrabella, making her debut at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, was kittenish enough but her voice was frequently hard, shrill, piercing...
...beautiful? Is she thin, fat, dropsical, anemic, senile, kittenish or reptilian? Last week Manhattanites asked these questions about Maria Lani, French cinemactress. For in the august Brummer Gallery was an exhibition of 51 representations of this one woman. She was "done" in marble, metal, paint, on a platter, on a piece of glass...
...sounded like a monster scoop when Ladies' Home Journal, kittenish, leggy, eagerly competitive these days under the editorship of Loring Ashley Schuler, announced that it had cornered the Paris pattern field. Magazines of massive circulation are dedicated to the serious business of dressing U. S. women in Paris clothes. Competing with Ladies' Home Journal (circulation 2,531,287) are Pictorial Review (2,459,750), McCall's (2,300,387), Delineator (1,511,573), Vogue (141,424), Harper's Bazaar...
...Carnegie Hall, as if for Kreisler or Paderewski, a great crowd gathered. Its chief motive seemed to be curiosity. Its reward was an exhibition of incredibly bad singing. But few seemed to mind. The bulk of the audience applauded loudly, encouraged the kittenish Walska ways, the heaving surface sorrows, until the few real friends of music present were as mortified for their fellow listeners as for the performer...
...trying to be important, was unoriginal and dull. But with An American in Paris he has done better and dared to be himself in the presence of such betters as Wagner and Cesar Franck. Only Walter Damrosch seemed out of character at the concert last week. His conducting was kittenish, suggestive somehow of an old man out with a chorus girl who would like to make a whirl and does not quite know...