Word: metier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Impersonator Carroll, ablest in his metier, has progressed from a sandwiched spot in The Grand Street Follies (brainy, cheaply-produced annual revue) to a local institution...
Judas. That Basil Rathbone is an able actor there is no doubt, but his part in writing this ineffectual piece should dictate to him the confines of his metier. He is not a playwright. Obvious, intermediate lines try without success to sketch Iscariot as a better man, really, than Bible History makes him. He who is hard of hearing would enjoy the personable cast, the good settings by Jo Mielziner, but the hard of hearing go to the cinema...
...decorate night clubs as well as play in them, and gradually abandoned the tonal for the graphic art. He painted ornamental screens full of bearded Russians of red-coated huntsmen with filigrees of bugles and hounds. But the New Yorker encouraged his satiric sense and he found his metier. Last year he married Lois Long, onetime night club and restaurant expert of the New Yorker. They have a small daughter...
Poetry is dangerous metier for so gifted a juggler. In saner prose she has twice acquired merit: Jennifer Lorn is exquisitely humorous for its very artificiality; The Orphan Angel, good narrative for all the beauty of its imaginative flights...
Good looking, listening and laughing may be found at these: Iolanthe, The Vagabond King, Sunny, Cocoanuts, Pinafore, By the Way, Artists and Models, Tip-Toes, Raquel Metier and No, No, Nanette...