Word: punchinello
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...sympathy, no best wishes rose to greet brown, broad-shouldered Champion Max Baer as that prime poseur, playboy and punchinello of the U. S. prize ring parted the ropes. The customers could not help resenting the fact that Baer's night club escapades, his cinema career (The Prizefighter and the Lady), his reluctance to train properly, amounted to a refusal to take seriously the sport of fisticuffing and, by inference, its patrons. The fact that he had won his title in the same ring where he was now about to risk it. and where no championship had ever been...
...Edouard Manet exhibited in the Salon a little oil a foot wide and less than two feet high. Nobody thought much of Manet. Jean Baptiste Faure, a singer who had the sort of immense popular recognition that Manet dreamed about, bought this picture, "Punchinello," for a few francs. He sold it four years later for $400. Last week at a sale in the Hotel Drouot, Paris, "Punchinello" brought...
...misfortune to furnish grist for a news item will chortle with glee at Big Lord Fauntleroy (a comic story), Sssssssssshhhh (a satiric story), Spring Flow'rets or Womanhood Eternal (a sex story), will marvel at the ingenious craftsmanship, vociferate their appreciation of the smarty wit of this Punchinello, Connell. If, sometimes, they prickle in amazement to discover that they themselves have on the pantaloons, that Connell is the gentleman who laughs, why should they mind...
...settings and atmosphere of the piece are distinctly Belasco, showing his infinite care for detail. But the lasting memory of the play must be of Barrymore alone, the light and shade, the splendid power of him in the second act. "Laugh, Punchinello, laugh at the pain that is breaking your heart...
...Hamilton's own sensations on such occasions, when he always gives impromptu speeches. There is his visit to America where he met John Drew, the "Squire of Easthampton and the gardenia of the American stage"; his meeting with the "wistful Charlie Chaplin, who hides the soul of Punchinello beneath the comic rags of slapstick"; and that "delightful, naive and unconceited man, Will Rogers, who will never recover from his surprise and amazement at having been able to put over his rope-twisting chats upon a sophisticated audience...