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Word: pleasingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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The brunt of the entertainment is borne by Miss Gahagan, of whom it may be said that not once does she allow the attention of the audience to wander. "Tonight Or Never" is a play which depends in a large measure on the personality of the prima donna for its...

Author: By B. Oc., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 10/10/1931 | See Source »

Now arises another critic to remind the world that education is "chaos," but with the difference that he has a pleasing remedy, albeit it is insufficient and impractical for other than self education. The new prophet is Gamaliel Bradford, popular biographer, who expounded his theory recently in the New York...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 10/5/1931 | See Source »

George White's Scandals is lightsome, for the most part pleasing entertainment. Producer White enlivened proceedings on the opening night by staging an impromptu fist fight in the theatre lobby with his librettist Lew Brown.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 28, 1931 | 9/28/1931 | See Source »

All in all the show is nothing more than a musical evening a performance by some of the best negro artists in the country. It is in truth a rhapsody of song in which the orchestra, the choir, and the few dancers that there are blend together to produce an...

Author: By O. E. F., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 9/23/1931 | See Source »

Bought (Warner) will be particularly pleasing to admirers of the Bennett family. Father Richard Bennett, altered by a monstrous Gothic nose, plays the part of a ladies' apparel buyer who makes friends with a model and finds, as his friendship progresses, that she is his illegitimate daughter. Daughter Constance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 24, 1931 | 8/24/1931 | See Source »

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