Word: talents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Greenwich Village Follies. A spirited, sumptuous display of color and talent with a good deal of extraordinary dancing to paprika it?two mirthful comic acrobats, the Mandells, Daphne Pollard, the laugh-provoking vaudevillian of the piece, some lavishly-staged song numbers, good voices, splendid direction, noteworthy speed. Not quite as laughable in its high spots as the Music...
...Lecturer at Yale. His appellate arguments are surpassed by those of nobody at the entire American Bar. He is in a class with men like John W. Davis, Louis Marshall, William D. Guthrie. He brings to the Senate, in addition to a profound knowledge of the law, a decided talent for convincing logical oratory, merciless in its precision and directness. He has received honorary degrees from Yale, Pennsylvania, Trinity, Pittsburgh. In addition to being a lawyer and statesman, Senator Pepper is also the author of several legal treatises of merit, and is actively interested in athletics, particularly baseball...
...Brown ($2.00). Monte Carlo-mysterious ladies of the highest rank who refuse to reveal their identities-a little French country girl-waif, sheltered by two young British aristocrats-England -Russia-Bolshevik prisons. ... In other words, Mr. Oppenheim's second book of the current year, displays his usual deft talent for spectacular plot and thrilling incident, though a confirmed Oppenheimer sadly misses the customary criminal secret society with its grips and passwords. THE LATE MATTIA PASCAL-Luigi Pirandello-Dutton ($2.50). What is human identity? Your mind? Your body? Your clothes? Your official papers? Mattia Pascal wondered -when an accident gave...
...unimpeachable occupation. For responsible statesmen it is the best, and we always rejoiced when in far-off Coalition days we read of the prodigious putting performed at Cannes or elsewhere by Mr. Lloyd George, M. Briand, Lord Riddell and others of that gallant and now deconsidered galaxy of talent...
...twelve operas. They intend to have a limited number of professional singers, together with amateurs. The use of amateur performers in the playing of opera is a bit of sublimity that makes one tremble. For chorus work (the chorus will number 125) something may be done with amateur talent, but for solo singing and orchestra playing-miracles happen, but not often...