Word: puckishly
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...First National-Warner Bros.). Of old-time Cinemactor Douglas Fairbanks' achievements, perhaps the greatest was his Puckish, jaunty, devil-may-care role of Robin Hood (1922). Replacing Douglas Fairbanks in Robin's bounding buskins is as much of a he-man's job as pinchhitting for Babe Ruth. In the current cinema lithe, lanky Errol Flynn hits no home run. but scores a clean two-bagger standing up. Lacking Fairbanks' punch and ken. he has Robin's form and flair down pat. If prankish Actor Fairbanks was a man's Robin Hood, handsome, romantic...
...last fortnight a chic, puckish young woman with bright black eyes and thick black bangs who practices several arts with ability and calls herself a "mime" (she pronounces it "meem") had a show of gouaches and drawings in Manhattan's Newhouse Galleries, gave her first Manhattan's theatre performances of the season and published her first book.* Pretty well shot by this triple demonstration was a ten-year-old, popular suspicion that Angna Enters is merely highbrow...
...other Hollywood executive. Producer Wallis lives on a ranch in the San Fernando Valley, drives a Cadillac to work, plays a little golf on Sunday. He has been known to turn down his wife, Comedian Louise Fazenda. for pictures he did not think she suited. Spasmodic outbreaks of puckish humor shatter his calm executive mask. He has disrupted story conferences with imitations of Rudy Vallee and Joe E. Brown, can hold his own at banquets with professional gagsters. Tall, affable, dimpled, his personal charm is notable in a business whose executives are conspicuously lacking in that quality...
...Frankie Thomas, 15, a solemn, bushy-haired youth of theatrical parentage who has created a large following in the past five seasons in such plays as Wednesday's Child and Remember the Day. An even younger member of Seen But Not Heard's cast is a puckish 10-year-old named Raymond Roe. In his impersonation of a peewee hypochondriac who gains his end by holding his breath for protracted periods, he rises far above his material, shows a natural aptitude for high comedy...
...Spokane, Wash, last week [TIME, June 26], it is noteworthy and lamentable that the work by which a fine creative mind is best known is usually the one by which he would least prefer to be known. Stoddard King's work matured to such extremely fine flights of puckish fancy in his later years that the continual reference to the fact that he wrote "The Long, Long Trail'' irritated him. Many of us often thought that King would have liked to have the memory of that ditty buried. It obscured the value of the pungent...