Word: valmouth
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...Broadway theater, sultry Singer Lena Home dropped in on opening night to catch her daughter, Gail Jones, 22, in a musical titled Valmouth and having to do with the antics of a mixed bag of aristocrats, plebeians and Far Eastern visitors at an English seaside resort. The critics thought the show "tired" and "a mess," but one allowed that Gail might ride more handsomely in another vehicle. Tersely observed the New York Times: "Gail may turn out to be a singer...
...five Firbank novels collected in this volume, readers-will find a pretty complete reflection of the Firbank private world, with only the coal and the real estate left out and no throaty constriction to impede the fluent lushness. ¶ Valmouth (1919) is a tale about high-society high jinks in an imaginary British health resort where the salubrious climate assures salacious longevity. The sexy heroine is a brisk 120 years old. ¶ The Flower Beneath the Foot (1923) tells of the unrequited love of a French girl for a royal prince (addressed as "His Weariness...
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