Word: petted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Perry, of the National Committee for Better Films, Russell Sage Foundation, now stands ready to give you the "lowdown" on just how the movies affect your growing family? what they like and dislike on the silver screen, what effect, if any, it has on their adolescent minds, their own pet actors and actresses?statistics 'n all." In fact about the only thing he hasn't done to the unsuspecting high school pupils of 76 American cities and large towns is to lay them...
...anxious to know " The Inside Stuff on Legit? " Variety will tell you. Do you happen to want an ant-eater for a pet or to know just exactly what the home folks in Terre Haute are seeing in the way of vaudeville? The Clipper can quote you a price on one and the entire bill of the other...
...thing better than destroying an ideal, and that is making one. The assassination of the "Custer" legend is one of the best. In spite of the inconsistencies of the argument, we who dislike the sentimental and saccrime pretensions of patriotism, become overjoyed at this ruthless iconoclasm of tradition's pet. Yet had it better not have lived? Was it not a tale to fire small boys' imagination? Ideals are so easily dispelled. Whenever some hardy spirit tries to plant one in CRIMSON'S fertile rows, a savage hand plucks the puny thing from the ground, and holds...
Proposhals for a National Theatre, a permanent home for standard drama in America, are again before the critical public. The scheme for a New York facsimile of the Theatre Francaise has been a pet ideal with high-minded producers and theatre people for a generation. Some years ago it came to a disappointing fruition in New York's Century Theatre, where shortsightedness, or perhaps too much farsightedness, made it a failure before it had begun. Now a definite plan seems again to be shaping, under encouraging auspices: but as yet no word has been spoken that makes Augustus Thomas...
...bloc bills brings back that historic scene in "Penrod" when all the boys ran away from beautiful Marjorie Jones, to lavish their attentions on the disingenuous little out-of-town girl, Fanchon Gelbraith. President Harding's attempt to usher his subsidy through Congress has gone for naught. Teacher's pet fares poorly when she is left all alone among the rough boys from the great unruly West...