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Baritone Lawrence Sibbett will make himself a flat, broad nose next season. He will clap on a kinky black wig, cork hi. face. He will wear scarlet breeches, light blue coat, patent leather boots, brass spurs and swagger importantly around, showing off his pearl-handled revolver loaded with five ordinary bullets and a special silver one. All of a sudden he will hear the distant beat of tom-toms, 72 to a minute and he will start supposedly into a forest, spend his first bullet at thick of night on formless, brightwood creatures who will mock him. His second bullet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Native Opera | 5/23/1932 | See Source »

...twice but he will go again today to hear Mr. Hersey speak on the "Paris of the Great Writers." There is the Revolution of Dickens, the Notre Dame of Victor Hugo, and the Montmartre of Du Maurier and the Vagabond must fight with DeFarge, pour lead with Quasimodo, and swagger along the boulevards with Taffy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 3/31/1932 | See Source »

...great grey Cadillacs glide up to great buildings. Top hats and spats swagger along Commonwealth, while Malacca canes set the pavements smarting. An ascot tie and a white pearl move slowly up the wide stone steps. Black velvet and grey feathers sweep to the sidewalk and a car door slams. young men with their fathers' money and fathers with fathers' money smile stiffly to one another. Cameras snap and the papers have a picture of a bent leg and averted gaze underneath a resounding name...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 3/26/1932 | See Source »

Leon Janney, as Penrod, is a talented and charming boy, with an infectious laugh and a most engaging swagger. But his face is far too pretty for Penrod, who would have been more accurately represented by Junior Cohgian, the youngster who plays Sam. If ever Hollywood does a story of prep-school life, which is unlikely, Leon Janney would make a perfect lower-form boy attending Sunday evening Chapel in an Eton collar...

Author: By G. G. B., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 11/7/1931 | See Source »

...Years anyway. When the New Years past and still he had not come, they began to watch for smoke issuing from his chimney of his cabin. When this proved a failure, they decided that they would have to get volunteers to go to find him. Fred Berling, called Swagger, Geo. Todd and Andrew Swanson offered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 25, 1931 | 5/25/1931 | See Source »

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