Word: nervous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...presented this week by the Jewett Players at the Copley Theatre, Pygmalion is a very amusing and well-balanced production. The acting, as a whole, is adequate, and on the part of Mr. Clive--delightful. He is Henry Higgens to the last nervous twitch of his awkward hands. Viola Roach, as the cockney flower girl, and Ada Wingard as the straight-laced housekeeper with middle class respectability--are likewise very convincing...
...exposition of the characters is made with such finesse that one scarcely realizes it. The curtain rises on Leila Archibald, spoiled, petulant and debutante, about to start with her mother for the country club tea. Mrs. Archibald, is the typical mother of such daughters as Bab and Leila, nervous, socially ambitious, and perpetually worried about clothes, conventions and eligibility. Carter Brooks is a charming young man who is in love with Bab but who has always been of Leila's set. Bat thinks he is in love with Leila, but the Honorable Clinton Beresford has that honor, although Mr. Archibald...
...given a really pleasing picture of the dogged Britisher, and the kilted Scotsman, and the "Aussie" with his devil-may-care swagger. And they have revealed with a wealth of anecdote the warm relationships which sprang up between these veterans of three years and the American doughboy full of nervous energy, and with all the serious enthusiasm of a schoolboy...