Word: parents
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...with a wink is enjoying flawless production at the Guild Theatre. Under Philip Moeller's direction, it emerges a dramatic symphony. Lynn Fontanne (who spent her summer in London picking up a cockney dialect and wardrobe) plays the wild specimen of the slums. Henry Travers is her ragged parent with Shavian grievances against middle-class morality. Together with Beryl Mercer as a simple housekeeper who understands women better than the celebrated bachelor scientists, they offer as fine a performance as the Guild or any other organization, can boast for this season. Liza Doolittle, howling gutter-virgin, is transformed...
...surfeited, looks on skeptically, for the kiss-cuddle-coo is supposed to have been continuous for three years, and in Paris. There is a father (Bruce McRae) who has ordered the hero-son out of the house for having loved the wrong girl, for having composed popular songs. The parent then falls in love with the girl himself, proving that the hero was right. On Fay Bainter's arch pouting and ogling rests the burden of entertaining the audience through three word-puffed acts. The burden is too great, even though shared by Mr. McRae, famed fascinator...
...first solo flight, but for six years prior he had ridden in planes over California to point out that great state's scenic wonders to tourists. His three sons are commercial pilots, one of them having won a transcontinental race in a plane built entirely by his parent...
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. It is a very wise crack that gets two laughs for its parent. Nevertheless, enjoyment of this long-awaited moronese farce by Anita Loos and John Emerson is not totally dependent upon one's not having read the Loos novel. As for the uninitiated, their cup of joy is full...
Bumke of Munich said that the U. S. methods of sterilizing insane and subnormal persons were "senseless." Doubtless he did not know that in the U. S. (in spite of permissive laws passed last year in Idaho, Minnesota, Oregon and Utah) sterilization, to prevent transmission of mental insufficiency from parent to offspring, is not favored. Top little is yet known about eugenics, U. S. physicians feel, to incur the legal risk of controlling procreation. They feel also that promiscuous sterilization would induce prostitution among women, baser vices among men. Professor Bumke's arguments against such operations duplicated...