Word: mots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reginald Owen makes an ingratiating Prince, and Betty Schuster's Baroness is among Broadway's handsomer sights. One would like to know whether Author Geyer or Translator Wodehouse is responsible for Mr. Howard's mot in the second act. When the Prince inquires what sort of women are customarily available to valets. he replies: "A cook, a lady's maid, and possibly a governess-at Christmas...
...Soviet, The Power of Evil tells what happens when a family conceals the fact that its daughter has epilepsy so as to marry her to the richest young man in the village. It is subtly acted, well photographed, superbly directed. U. S. audiences, familiar with the works of Armenian mot-maker Michael Arlen (Dikran Kouyoumdjian) will find no traces of that young man's simpering suavity in this sombre, compact story. You see how the bridegroom's mother and sister plot to get rid of the girl, first by such witchcrafts as burying a crow in the garden...
...intend that my letter should be taken, as a joke, for though none would be quicker to appreciate a bon mot than myself. I cannot in all truth my that I see anything funny about forgery. In this stand I am substantiated by several banks and penal institutions...
This last generality, fond and frequent bon mot at parting of many parents; has often served to bring home their son earlier than they ever dreamed, Recognition of one truth is looking more and more at Harvard: that no single outside activity, athletics included, will so surely build a good citizen as conscientious application to college study. In the days when this idea bore the brand of propaganda it was quite properly abhorred, but recently it has achieved a renascence that seems unthreatened by even the ignorance of the familiar playboy. Mr. Slocum is carried on the wings of Pegasus...
...fling the mantle of Art about a nothingness, then convince the reader that there is a live spook inside the sheet after all. The book is not "promising," and the authoress need not be "watched," but her courage, persistence, and a certain as yet wavering flair for the mot juste make this a far from mediocre "first." First-Novelist Chilton is daughter of onetime U. S. Senator W. E. Chilton (West Virginia...