Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heroine of the show, just hasn't got IT. In riding breeches, she almost captures IT, but when she appears as Margarite, she looks like a debutante at the end of a hard winter. Her voice is of that tricky, gymnastic variety which permits its owner to do all sorts of stunts to the great astonishment of the audience, but never enables her to carry clear through a song with any beauty of performance or depth of feeling. A girl must be a triple threat to achieve greatness in a musical comedy, and Miss Parisette can scarcely dance, sings fairly...
...this one of his "pleasant," plays, had taken advantage of every possible bit of humor--humor of the broadest sort. He doesn't smile at Raina's medieval fancy about the chivalrous knight who gallops up to the enemy on horseback and kills a hundred men with one stroke of its sword instead the laughs long and loud. In the preface the play he says: "I am not convinced that the world is only held together by force of unanimous, strenuous, eloquent, trumpet tongued lying;" and he goes on to make this statement more emphatic Everybody in the play...
...next production was a sort of relapse. Nothing is more difficult to do well than Italian comedies of the eighteenth century. And in selecting Carlo Goldini's "The Liar," the Dramatic Club failed to realize that the Anglo-Saxon audiences to which it played could not easily catch the spirit of the gay Venetian. Goldini is not done now--even by the most artistically advanced of professionals; for an amateur organization he is almost impossible...
...England. Other items have announced that this Mr. Huntington bought Gainsborough's "Blue Boy," and the best Gutenberg Bible in existence, and that very rare object, a first folio of Shakespeare, and a first edition of Hamlet, and . . . But the "Blue Boy" and the Bible aside, what sort of man, people have wondered, is Mr. Huntington...
After nearly three hundred years Harvard still turns out ministers in large numbers, though they are hardly the sort of ministers, as a rule, that would appeal to the early, Puritan theocrats...