Word: penchant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Marriage Playground (Paramount). What happens to children in families that have a penchant for divorces was the subject of a novel (The Children) by Edith Wharton which this picture reproduces faithfully. Mrs. Wharton's professional, knowingly maternal sympathy, her bookish characters, even the glossy feeling of her style, are in The Marriage Playground. It is handsomely staged, conscientiously acted, unreal, inane. Numerous precocious stage children do their specialties as Mary Brian, the oldest and best-looking of the family, gives them their cues. Silliest shot: the cocktail council on the beach...
...Haydn's Farewell symphony had its first performance before Hungarian Prince Nicholas Esterhazy, some one had the idea of keeping the audience in darkness, giving each musician a candle of his own to snuff at the concert's close. In Cincinnati Conductor Fritz Reiner often exhibits a penchant for the historical.* Last week he attempted to duplicate the first candlelit concert but modernized methods boggled the illusion. The candles were electric, behaved accordingly. 'Cellist Desire Danczowski's flame flickered, threatened to quit before the end; 'Cellist Walter Hermann's balked when it should have...
...Southern Pacific is neither a hospital nor a college. It is easy to understand why the gift was made. Though Mr. Harkness is a director of eight railroads, he has long had a penchant for the Southern Pacific. Of each and every year he spends a part inspecting the road. Many of the employes he knows by face and name. He once remarked that his three dominant interests were "the great West," "railroad companies," and "helping to better medical education." There could be no more logical focus for these three interests than the Southern Pacific hospital. The causes...
...Washington, D. C., where she grew up and went to public school. Her father was killed in an accident four months before she was born. Although her present familiarity with the great figures of the past suggests, perhaps correctly, long silent hours devoted to scholarship, friends recall that her penchant for playing hooky worried her mother a lot until Ina convinced her that, as she had already determined to become an actress, she did not need an education. What she needed, she insisted, was emotion. She made what use she could of this quality in her first vaudeville part, which...
...knows too many after-dinner stories even to count. He knows his company for any particular one. He is no vulgarian. His manners would be called excellent except for his penchant to monopolize the conversation. On first acquaintance he seems a truly remarkable man. He does not wear well. That he has the talent and the information to make the mess a lot worse than it is, bad as it is, is not questioned...