Word: kittenish
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...unhappy wives compensate themselves for their connubial discontent by going on shopping sprees; by taking up art, religion, morals, culture, society, politics; by being cute, girlish and kittenish, by nagging, by yammering...
...Author, Anne Green, like her heroine a young expatriate in Paris, unlike her heroine has not taken a husband. She writes gaily, is photographed with a smile. A tendency to be kittenish, faintly observable in her first book, obtrudes in her second. But she writes with gusto, a rare quality, and her people are superficial enough to be amusingly lifelike...
...Alyn Warren as Lo Sang Kee, the cultured and dignified old Chinaman and E. G. Robinson as the vulgar and blatant half caste, Charlie Young. Lewis Ayres makes an ornamental hero and Lupe Velez has her moments, but she has a tendency towards overacting and is a shade too kittenish for a demure Chinese doll. In short the excellent direction and casting save it from being just another one of those pictures...
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...