Word: pattering
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Pictures are drawn for the avid imaginations of magazine readers of tiny citizens absurdly caparisoned in velvet and plumes waiting daily for a director who requires the patter of little feet about the house to motivate his final clinch. Though there are laws which insist upon the education of movie children, we are led to believe that the education is scattered thinly through sessions before the blinding Kleig lights and interrupted by the hammering of carpenters and the yammering of stars...
Gold-leaf offers for the patter of little feet...
...patter of little feet about the house, one recalls, was the single feature of any true importance during the recent prize fight proceedings at Shelby, Mont. The feet belonged to one Patricia Salmon and the house was the Red Onion Dance Hall. Patricia was leading lady of the Hyman-Welly traveling tent show...
...mutual strangers might put it over the tea cups. The gentleman in this unfortunate predicament married his wife in a forgetful moment. When he remembered that he had stolen his stepfather's money he decided that he must make himself worthy before he dared to hope for the patter of little feet about the house. Meanwhile the couple have been chased by a detective, one of those fierce-faced movie detectives, to a lonely South Sea island. And here, dear reader, we will leave them. You may have three guesses as to a) whether he was really guilty of stealing...
...many, the daring experiment of farcing what was obviously written as a farce, instead of playing it in the more usual " Oh Lord, here's a classic!" manner, seemed highly successful. As successful as could be, considering the fact that most of the Elizabethan cross-fire and comic patter, has, like nearly all good topical stuff, lost much of its sting with the passage of the slang and catchwords of its day. The plot (mistaken identities) was, of course, a hardy perennial even before Shakespeare- and there are few " familiar quotations " in the Comedy of Errors to help...