Word: mimed
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...last fortnight a chic, puckish young woman with bright black eyes and thick black bangs who practices several arts with ability and calls herself a "mime" (she pronounces it "meem") had a show of gouaches and drawings in Manhattan's Newhouse Galleries, gave her first Manhattan's theatre performances of the season and published her first book.* Pretty well shot by this triple demonstration was a ten-year-old, popular suspicion that Angna Enters is merely highbrow...
...Green Table remains the best of the Jooss ballets, wears well as a masterpiece. In it ten of the dancers mime as diplomats, first suave, later pompous, finally furious. With foolish toy pistols they start the war through which Death stalks, imperiously destroying soldiers and their womenfolk, pecking fatally at a cocky little profiteer, sparing only the diplomats, inscrutably masked, back at the green table again making more trouble...
Critics and pressagents, at loss for a word to describe just what Miss Enters does for a living, call her a mime. She is not a dancer for she has never made a pirouette in her life. Nor is she an actress for she never speaks a line on the stage. Yet with enormous skill and considerable sly humor she postures and grimaces through pantomime sketches of her own devising in elaborate costumes that she not only designs but sews herself. Eight years of it have given her a comfortable income, scrapbooks full of superlatives in three languages and last...
...Mime Enters has high cheekbones, a big mouth, straight black bangs, great vivacity. She is excessively reticent about her early life. She was born in New York City about 30 years ago, had a comfortable bourgeois childhood and developed an urge to paint. She had a job in the daytime but attended night classes at the Art Student's League under shock-headed John Sloan. Fellow students remember her as the girl that solemnly writhed and grimaced while drawing. When John Sloan praised her work she thought he could not be a good teacher, left his class, disillusioned. Because...
...heavy in the show is a much improved John Boles who makes love to a newcomer, Margaret Sullavan, with plenty of savoir and no little wissen. Miss Sullavan shows herself a capable mime. She has a certain un-Holly-woodian freshness about her, a spontaneity found all too seldom in screen stars. She delivers her lines with sparkling zest, and can look and without looking stupid. Only on the deathbed scene does she become a bit wearying. Her face is just pretty--not beautiful, but attractive. her figure is, of course, flawless, and she wears clothes as they should...