Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Most particularly does it deal with the confidence that the Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna shared with the author; with the noble work done by "my Empress"; with the blindness and kindness of the Tsar; the pathetic illness of the Tsarevitch; and with many other details, pleasant and unpleasant, connected with the Romanov Family...
Scaramouche. All that remains for, Scaramouche is that it be turned into an opera. First a pleasant popular novel; then a singularly fine cinema (TIME,Oct. 8); finally a moderately entertaining example of the cloak and sword in drama. An illegitimate child, a revolutionist, a wandering mountebank, finally "the most powerful man in Paris" during the Revolution; thus the fortunes of Scaramouche unfold. Unfortunately the quiet talents of that excellent actor Sidney Blackmer fit wretchedly the heroic velvet and sash of the hero. When fiery flame is needed he only smoulders pleasantly. Otherwise the cast and the production are considerably...
...actual disturbance is only the prelude to the pleasant motif. It is always comforting to feel that the senator from California is in a receptive mood as the presidential year rolls round. There comes therewith that sense of healthy normalcy which used to be felt in those days when the candidacy of Mr. Bryan was a hardy perennial...
...verse impresses me as being better than the prose. Dudley Fitts Jr. contributes a joyful "Ode to Anne", "who demanded a piece in the jazzy measure." Mr. Fitts possesses feeling for metrical movement, and a blessed sense of the ridiculous. In "An Invective Against Poets", Merle Colby, with pleasant banter, calls upon the rhymers to tell where they have ever seen this beauty about which they sing in sweetened notes. Pertinex writes in his sonnets about "Inspiration"; Whitney Cromwell writes with a pleasant absence of gravity about "Reading an Obituary". George P. Ludlam speaks in a serious poetic style...
...were it not, as has been said, for the author's graceful sly humor and intense humanity. He is smiling all the time--a very kindly smile. And yet that same smile that prevents him from sermonizing prevents him equally well from annihilating. He is cool and he is pleasant. Too cool and too pleasant to push his arguments to their farthest limits. His smile of understanding never changes into the frown of annoyance, with the result that the reader is at times disappointed in not seeing the adversary completely disposed of. It would be interesting if Professor Perry should...