Word: scamping
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Scribbling on a tavern table, inflamed with love and drink, the great scamp of poets, null Villon, asked: "Where are the snows of yesteryear?" A political observer might be tempted to ask the same question, with some-what less of pathos and something more of irony: "Twenty months ago a struggle for the Presidency commenced. But where are the men, the issues, of that yesteryear? Then was the springtime of political hope. Now is the autumn of political fruition. But where are the snows whence sprang this herbage...
camera. Virtuous Liars. One of those artist pictures in which we are to believe that a married woman seeking an artist's career in New York can win fame fastest if she poses as a widow to the denizens of baldhead row. Her scamp husband is put out of the way of her second marriage to the hero, by a shot...
...good to everybody no matter how they feel it, acquires first a nervous breakdown and then, while recuperating, a young and comely bride (Claire Windsor). But when the medico returns to his work, the bride is sort of neglected-and turns, as subtitles say, to the doctor's scamp of an adopted son for light amusement: It is not difficult to guess what happens next and whether the picture ends happily...
Casanova's Homecoming, by Arthur Schnitzler, deals with that celebrated scamp, charlatan and boudoir-athlete at a time when he could no longer conceal from himself the obvious fact that he was getting on in years, and that his attractions as a heartbreaker were on the wane. Nevertheless, he resolves to have one last fling with a lady named Marcolina, and, by means of rather disgraceful hoax, accomplishes his aims, and, as was always his custom, escapes all vengeance. The tale is well written?the author a distinguished international figure in the literary world? but, except for its suave manner...
...Costigan '20, and R. Gerould '20 as Asmah, Hay Feevah and She'dbetterhad, respectively, make a stunning trio of "vamps," with the Cleo Mayfield inflection. P. F. Nash '21 as Rev. Thomas Thomas of Thomaston, Ohio, a meticulous minister, and Ford Hibbard '20 as the merry scamp. Tom Tom, Jr., provide some of the best laughs in the show. C. C. Ryan '20 was picked for the role of Keeptotherite, an Arab traffic-cop, principally on account of his name...