Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Scottish maid, a purely imaginative conception of what is the Scottish dialect and bunkers of arid waste in the first act, W. S. Gilbert's "most famed" comedy does it in two under bogey. In fact, one might be tempted to say that nothing like such perfect work as appears in the end of the second act has been done on the musical comedy links this season. Then it is that Cheviot Hill, so excellently done by J. M. Kerrigan, a gentleman of property who is dangerously susceptible to femininity, finds himself beset with a small stage full...
...marriage license in two, Douglas Fairbanks is himself again. Fascinating, agile Spanish hero, Don Cesar clears himself of the charge of murdering an Archduke, wins the lovely Dolores de Muro (Mary Astor), plays the double part of father and son in a battle against 15. The picture is photographically perfect, splendidly cast, full of thrills...
Lost-A Wife. Greta Nissen, out of Norway, brings to view her wild blonde hair and perfect poise. Torn from her own engagement party by "Bet-a-Thousand Tony" (Adolph Menjou), she marries him and as instantly loses him to the superior passion of gambling. She rebels, divorces, regains him. She is, in short, victorious over both the audience and her husband...
...soda clerks of their old home town. Last week, Lawrence Tibbett, 28-year-old U. .S. baritone who came to fume one evening in Fahtaff at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan (TIME, Jan. 12), returned to the hamlet of Bakersfield, Calif. His traveling appointments and haberdashery were in perfect taste. In the local opera house, he lifted the voice that had made the gallery-ghouls of the Metropolitan beat their palms red and had thrilled the tympana of the Diamond Horseshoe-Striving to please, Baritone Tibbett continued his concert three-quarters of an hour overtime. "I gave my best...
...long, hard workout twice each day. This crew is not getting the speed work that features the practice of the other boats, but a speeding up process in the last few days before the race will undoubtedly be productive of more result when the timing has become perfect. The presence of six Freshmen in the boat this year, and only two substitutes from the University squad has made the task of the 150-pound mentor a difficult one, but a daily improvement in the form shown by the Combination oarsmen will enhance the chances for a Crimson win in this...