Word: pertness
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...from David Belasco's to Orson Welles's stud the pages of her book, but none of them-not even her husband's, Director Guthrie McClintic -ever becomes a face. Toward other actors she is virtually all smiles. About nothing, about no one, is she pert, mettlesome, unexpected. Compared to the First Lady of Broadway, the First Lady of the Land is, six days a week, a purveyor of shuddersome scandals...
...past eight years at Manhattan's Metropolitan, pert French soprano Lily Pons has practically had a monopoly on old-fashioned Latin coloratura warbling. Last week, when Coloratura Pons hurried off to Palm Beach, Fla. to nurse a sudden cold, General Manager Edward Johnson shoved a brand-new Italian soprano, Lina Aimaro, into her part in Lucia di Lammermoor. A packjammed audience went to hear her, found Soprano Aimaro an earnest young Model T coloratura, with good top notes and a tendency to stall...
Oldtimers at the opening of Congress were surprised to see a small brown-haired girl, handsome as a magazine cover, pert in plaid jacket, black skirt and yellow hair-ribbon, chasing down the aisles of the House, talking to distinguished members, having her picture taken, carrying messages. She was Gene Cox, 13, eye-apple youngest daughter of Georgia's cantankerous Representative Edward Eugene ("Goober") Cox. Over the protests of Doorkeeper Joe Sinnott, who feared it would "get into the newspapers" and start a rush by other doting parents to have the same done for their girls, Father...
...Manhattan's newest columnist, pert Dorothy Kilgallen, who last week took over the Journal and American's "Voice of Broadway," immediately implored producers to ring up their curtains at 9:30 p. m., on the grounds that she is "an eating girl" and, as things stand, goes to the theatre half starved. "Or else," she wound up, "send me sandwiches with my tickets." If her suggestion were adopted, critics on morning newspapers would have only 15 minutes to write their reviews...
...knockout. Dripping with fat moments, it too often relaxes that festive, madcap spirit, that no-slowing-down-for-curves tempo, that kettle-boiling-over excitement that mark the top-notch farce musical. But it has fast dancing and pretty girls. It has some beguiling, insouciant Cole Porter tunes, some pert cafe society Cole Porter lyrics. It has Sophie Tucker, who can make ambassadorial high-life so low-life that even her pearls seem to leer...