Word: lissom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Naughty Marietta is that lovely effort of Victor Herbert which contains the waltz "I'm Falling in Love with Someone." Use Marvenga's voice is as lissom as her figure. The third of a series of Victor Herbert revivals (TIME, Oct. 7), it is splendidly recreated in every detail...
...meeting in Los Angeles Labor Temple, was lissom, exotic cinemactress Jetta Goudal, whose vivid partisanship has won her the name, "Equity's Joan of Arc." Quivering, she shouted: "As for quitters, as for scabs, I say, God damn their souls...
...anything except their sex and profession in common. But between them they allowed the coincidence to happen and, with the public still craving Ibscenities as an aftermath of last year's Ibscentennial, comparisons and contrasts were inevitable. For example: Eva Le Galliénne's figure is lissom; it permits her to play Peter Pan. It is im portant and eloquent in the theatre; she and her Civic Repertory Theatre en able the penurious to see good plays, no claptrap. Of more importance in the specific case of Hedda Gabler, her figure has no voluptuousness to soften...
...things as the tread of Shakespeare's clowns and the rhythm of the clog-dancers of Good News; and the Charles is no longer the dividing line between culture and the foothills, for to-night the Dramatic Club brings Bagdad "to Brattle Hall, and offers the softer" pacing of lissom Eastern maidens. Next week caps the dramatic excellence of the month, however, with the visit of two of New York's most celebrated stage organizations...
...wears a velvet tunic between the hem of which and a pair of his mother's black stockings there yawns "a sad hiatus" when he sits. Friends of the family swell the audience, including three painters-Ford Madox Brown, Laurence Alma-Tadema, Dante Gabriel Rossetti. A lissom youth with auburn hair and a weak but beautiful countenance stretches on the rug, slightly disconcerting the actors by chanting the lines with them in a melodious undertone. He is called Algernon Swinburne...