Word: show-off
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...they move in on the Fisher family, where his asinine laughs, platitudes and backslapping madden his sardonic mother-in-law. J. Aubrey loses his job, wrecks a borrowed car, is cast off by his wife. By stupid luck he muddles out of his despair to remain the same conceited show-off to the end. Good shot: ¶Ma & Pa Fisher after the wedding reading Aubrey's travel folders on Waikiki Beach, the Taj Mahal and the Riviera while the honeymooners embark on the night boat to Albany...
...business to New York to write a play and eventually finds out that he could not write a good play even if he wanted to. That is what this play proves with much dull harangue. It was written by George Kelly (Craig's Wife, The Torch Bearers, The Show-Off ). Here he presents a lodging-house collection of sad artistes mothered by a landlady who was once a great actress. They are mildly droll, mildly tragic, but Playwright Kelly could be accused of conceit in supposing that he has made them worth the price of admission...
...second violinist was courteous, but the misguided show-off had blundered. He might as well have told one of the six Floradora girls that not one of them could sing like old Seňora Floradora. For the Flonzaleys are as unrelated as most teams which have a single name.* There was no Mr. Flonzaley who fathered them all. There was instead a Swiss banker, Edward J. deCoppet, who wanted chamber music in the U. S. He appointed Violinist Alfred Pochon to establish a string quartet, and he named it after his Swiss villa, Flonzaley, which translated means "brooklet...
Felix Frankfurter, Austrian-born, came to this country at the age of twelve. Professor at Harvard Law School since 1914, he lectures brilliantly on such things as public utilities and federal jurisdiction. His remarkable memory for the very page number of obscure cases has confounded many a show-off law student. He works his men hard, regales them with none of his reputed radicalism. During the War he was able assistant successively to the War and Labor Departments. His erudite writings concern the Interstate Commerce Act, Wages, Labor, Criminal Justice. Conspicuous champion of Sacco and Vanzetti, his close study...
...jokes were moldy, the dancing deft, and the vast chorus uncommonly bewitching. Imbedded none too conspicuously in the generally unwieldy proceedings is an actor named Louis John Bartels, playing his first part on Broadway since he laid a just claim to fame as the blabbering, brilliant hero of The Show...