Word: ungenteel
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...characters, but also one of the most difficult to play. She must reminisce dreamily about the easy gentility of her youthful days in the South, where she once entertained seventeen "gentlemen callers" with kitty talk, and at the same time must show through as an insipid and very ungenteel middle-class mother, the kind of woman who would fall for an alcoholic telephone man despite her "fastidious" tastes. This is a hard contrast to handle without making Amanda merely laughable. Another contrast is even more difficult. Amanda must be a nagging, tyranical mother, who tries to force her crippled daughter...
...lost it in the dining halls. We, too, must wear the knotted rag that is the vestige of our ancestors' attempts to guard against colds in the throat. Even regarded as a symbol of gentility, the compulsory necktie is an unwarranted imposition on those of us who are conscientiously ungenteel. Perhaps Harvard will some day experience among its students a revival of the zeal that characterized its founders. On that day we might remember the slogan promulgated by one of the Tom Paines of Jenkins Township-Yatesville Borough Joint: "We won't wear ties...
Magnolia Alley (by George Batson; produced by Lester Cutler) was already, at week's end, part of Memory Lane. It set out to picture the life of a shabby-ungenteel rooming house in a Southern town. The characters included a landlady with a past and a thirst (Jessie Royce Landis); her daughter, a boxer's wife and almost anybody's woman; her adopted daughter, a rather noisily religious girl; her chief roomer, a Magnolia Streetwalker; and enough men to illustrate the women's ways. Done right, it might have been enjoyably raffish. Since Playwright Batson...
Said I, "I 'm ungenteel I know...
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