Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play serves to introduce Alfred Lunt, star of Clarence, to the screen. Robbed of his voice, he is not as effective as is his wont. Even so, he towers over the rank and file of screen actors. He stiffens Backbone into fairly pleasant entertainment...
Another was the quartet singing of the walters--a little touch which is at present rather unusual in musical comedy, but none the less pleasant when found there. As comedians, Florence Hope as the maid, Florence Morrison as Mrs. Thompson of Mrs. Thompson's boarding house, and Ted McNamara as the bellhop, easily passed the qualifying round...
Leacock and his friends are loyal Canadians. During the past two years, they have built up a Canadian Authors' Association which, starting originally to protect copyrights, has developed into a pleasant social organization, and one which takes a great interest in book propaganda. To their efforts must be credited the original success of the delightful Maria Chapdelaine. It was a relief, the other day, to sit down with Mr. Leacock and some of his cronies in Montreal. A relief, because one no longer heard talk of Sherwood Anderson or of T. S. Eliot, of this modern literary quarrel...
...leads to another, the hero, R. P. Bullard '24, who does the entire singing of the piece, gets into endless amatory difficulties with the girl who planted on him and the girl whom he loves with every ounce of red blood in his manly frame, and after a very pleasant second act at the Bahamas, during which there is a whacking-good number called "Will you marry me?", the company returns to a third act at the Cost-leigh-Pleasure in civilization, some admirable specialties, and the final curtain. Not a new plot, to be sure...
...monitors are human, and they do not find it easy to become mechanical parts of a system. They have sleepy friends, lazy friends, probation friends and, at times, friends who will relieve them of their work. It is not very pleasant to be continually on guard to see that unpopular rules are enforced; to be unsympathetic with a pleading friend, or to turn a deaf ear to well-constructed tales of woe. But the man who volunteers for the job knows in advance what he may expect; his reward, considering how little effort is required, is generous. The least that...