Word: virtuously
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...open spaces lured East and left with the acute fish-out-of-water feeling in the midst of what is called Society is not new. To strengthen it, the product and the girl who lured him are visited by the stork. The girl has a suspicious cough and a virtuous sister. The Westerner becomes a sturdy Congressman. You can figure out what happens for yourself. If you can't, don't bother to attend. The mystery isn't worth...
CANDIDA-One of Shaw's earliest and best, featuring Katherine Cornell, becomes a leading popular as well as artistic success. SHE HAD TO KNOW-Grace George discovers in a delightfully amusing manner whether or not a woman can be too virtuous or too attractive. Is ZAT So?-A prizefight parable takes place in a Fifth Avenue home. Terribly tough and terribly funny. THE GUARDSMAN-Suave and sentient comedy of home life among the actors played perfectly by Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. THE FIREBRAND-Benvenuto Cellini indulges in some medieval bedroom ri- baldries. THE SHOW-OFF-Large talk...
...World, James Kirkwood is invariably solemn and virtuous. He wins his woman. Usually he is an outdoor soul with all the calm irresistibility of a brooding oak. He grows, in the present instance, in Africa. Beside him grows his cousin, a dope fiend and a very unpleasant individual. Out comes the girl, in love with the latter. Suicides, hypnotism and a flood are employed to solve the somewhat reminiscent situation. Mr. Kirkwood plays a double part of the hero and the bum. Anna Q. Nilsson is the girl...
...Bully. One of those throaty melodramas in which the ingenue is virtuous and the villain a fiend, came in with Christmas and will probably go out with the Old Year. Unwittingly, the virtuous child implicates herself in her master's villainies. Pearls-a great many pearls-are stolen. Emmett Corrigan, who should have known better, waded around in the shallows of the leading part. Several of the cast were almost criminally incompetent. The audience tittered...
President Coolidge is said to sit patiently by the vaults of the Treasury, watching the pennies, but his virtuous vigilance is at last rewarded from an unexpected quarter. A dime which he let drop unbeknown, has returned, but not to plague him. The grateful finder ate a hearty meal, went to work, probably as a street car conductor, for he says that he "now has many dimes". The accidental leavings of great men have a magical potency...