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What Price Morning-Glories, a purified play where Sergeant Squirt in lavender pajamas gets gloriously drunk with Captain Sagg, on chocolate malted milks and chocolate nut sundaes, until the Captain turns on the sergeant with: "You lilac!" and the infuriated sergeant screams: "You son of a bachelor's button...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Jun. 29, 1925 | 6/29/1925 | See Source »

...nut-brown maid whose exclamatory legs and bandeaued coif have been photographed innumerable times for the press of the U. S., of Europe, was posed once more last week before a battery of cameras. She, Mile. Suzanne Lenglen, had just won the women's tennis championship of France. She seemed browner than ever before. Her legs, still eloquent, were leaner. She played recklessly and, when she occasionally lost a point withheld her gesticulations. She defeated Miss Kathleen McKane of England, 6-1, 6-2; proceeded, with her partner, Mile. Vlasto, to win the women's doubles; and, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Lenglen | 6/15/1925 | See Source »

...POOR NUT ?College cutups salted with just enough true satire to make them tart and generally diverting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: May 18, 1925 | 5/18/1925 | See Source »

...satire; most of them are slapstick comedy. The former gives the latter just salt enough to make the whole a popular dish. The whole cast plays with the enthusiasm of a negro chorus breaking into a Charleston and their leader, Elliott Nugent, gives a brilliant performance as the Poor Nut who fooled the squirrels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: May 11, 1925 | 5/11/1925 | See Source »

...POOR NUT-An exaggerated college tale that wrings laughter for its very exaggerations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: May 11, 1925 | 5/11/1925 | See Source »

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