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Maggie Teyte has a way of being herself on stage, which charmed the audiences but sometimes chilled the critics. Says she, "The formal, cold stage is pfft. I want to throw my arms and roll my eyes. These young girls, they parade and strut around the stage and wonder 'What do I look like?' I forget...
...Cape, Strut & Whiskers. Then came Paris. The Idahoan with the glittering eye and the positive manner ranged magnificently from salon to bordello, flaunting his cape and stick and Byronic collars, spitting critical fire, pinching the ladies and wagging his fierce red whiskers. He grew as famous as his neighbors, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway. By the time he was 40 he had written 31 books. The stream of poetry, prose and French and Chinese translations swelled to a torrent. Then, the early '30s, Ezra Pound stepped abruptly out of his field...
Main Steet. But the intellectual strut and prosodic perplexities of many of the scoffers left all but a few U.S. readers unmovedd. Main Street moved them. When it appeared (1920), U.S. readers swooped upon it with a cry of shocked delight, and made it their own. Gopher Prairie, first savagely repudiated and then eagerly claimed as the pen name for Lewis' birthplace, Sauk Centre, Minn., was a cartoon of all U.S. small towns slashed on in strokes broad enough to be unmistakable to the most reluctant. Its inhabitiants, at once fearsome and folksy, were at best expertly stage-managed...
Brot, Arbeit, Familie. The most uncooperative among the Germans (the Army hopefully believes) have been segregated in one camp in Oklahoma, where they try to strut past U.S. officers without saluting, rub the stenciled Ps and Ws off their clothes and get away generally with whatever they...
Crammed with dull chatter and paced for obsequies rather than nuptials, And Be My Love is as much sleeping powder as play. Best served by it is Walter Hampden who, by playing an actor, can strut and attitudinize with glorious impunity...