Word: pertness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minutes before the play's end a pert usher in a pert brown cap and close-fitting brown bodice utters her first and almost her last line: "Gee whiz, Mae was like delirious. She kept laughing and saying it was a big joke. Her baby's got no father." The pert usher is played by Jean Bellows, daughter of the late great Artist George Bellows...
Those two amiable wage Stuart Erwin and Skeets Gallagter, make "Bachelor Bait" very amusing. It is the story of a matrimonial agency, euphemistically handled, since it is in the hands of a sentimental, timid soul type in Mr. Erwin. Pert Kenton, described at one stage of the proceedings as "not a lady, but rather acting like a top-sergeant of the marines" brings the only expected robust touch to the story of Romance, Incorporated, doing business is lonesome ladies and gentleman...
...point of extravagance, the show offers four worthwhile lady entertainers: 1) saturnine Luella Gear, complaining that she has tried all the advertised luxuries of life but still "I Couldn't Hold My Man"; 2) lean Frances Williams who sings "Fun To Be Fooled" with bright authority; 3) a pert little body from the night clubs named Dixie Dunbar who kicks and chortles cutely; 4) Esther Junger, a concert dancer, bringing Carnegie Hall technique to frivolous Broadway...
Like the Red Book it begins with a rogue's gallery with pert and pungent little quips beside the velvet-draped likeness and a list of activities such as "Badminton, Hospitality Committee, Member of Class VIII Judicial Board, Associate Justice, and Track Team...
...conclusion, Success at Any Price is not improved by Douglas Fairbanks Jr.'s skin-deep performance. Colleen Moore appears for the first time since she started a comeback in The Power and the Glory (TIME, Aug. 28). Mousy, pallid, indecisive, she is no longer the pert, starry-eyed actress of 'flapper" roles in silent picture days, when exhibitors voted her the industry's No. 1 box office attraction...