Word: poignant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then suddenly, through the closing act, the mood deepens. The imminence of the Examiner hangs an oppressive cloud over the travelers. To tell of the manner of his coming and the exquisite semi-epilogue between the lowers would be to cheat the reader of a poignant emotional experience...
...poignant skit with dashing...
...Gallienne is entrusted the important title role. Miss Le Gallienne is a very quiet actress, expressing with a poignant emphasis that she who would be queen cannot employ the palace as a playroom for emotion. Basil Rathbone is her tutor; Philip Merrivale her prince. They seem manufactured, moulded, polished for their parts. Among the remainder of the consistently competent company are the capable veterans Hilda Spong and Alison Skipworth...
...Significance. The Puppet Master is that rare thing, a fantasy without a trace of professional whimsicality or sentimentalism-it has all the charm of Barrie at his best without one drop of glycerine in its composition. Humorous, beautiful, poignant with airy melancholy, this minute and perfect comedy of puppets and their masters is a complete and singular achievement in its mode. Our time has produced little fantasy, but this is of the best of it-and it will last. Gay and incredible as a dream in a fairytale, it has that reality about it which no laborious exactitude of realism...
Earnest followers of American progress in musical comedy recall with poignant regret the death of Bert Savoy (TIME, July 9). Savoy was a female impersonator; the most strident yet one of the funniest of comedians. His phrases included: " You don't know the half of it, dearie," " You must come over," " You should have been with us." Now his partner, Jay Brennan, has taken unto himself a new and similar associate named Rogers. The pair are a success in provincial music halls. Shortly they will be tried in New York...