Word: watching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ground. All these grotesque masqueraders begin to take themselves seriously. You think you were wrong about the fancy dress. Casting sidelong glances about the garden of Lorenzo, you nervously seek the uniformed attendant. At any moment, you feel, some ardent damsel may rush on shouting: "I'm an egg! Watch me scramble...
...excellent thing to watch. There are pretty faces, there are Ann Pennington's dimpled knees, there are some settings of real beauty, there are curtains by R. Marsh, there are notable costumes. And the music is not offensive. Brooke Johns wields his voice and his banjo to good effect. Unfortunately there is also a plot-something about a magic chair that makes you tell the truth. The heroine injudiciously sits in it just before getting married. That, of course, makes tho wedding impossible, and it is some time before she can get started all over again on another...
...determined from a study of the few scraps that remain of orchestra scores of that remote composer's other works. Bodanzky is, at the same time, the gayest and j oiliest of companions, who gives huge laughter to comic tales and sits like a great paladin to watch a game of cards. The metropolis is to have another symphony orchestra. The conductor will be Mr. Stransky. The organization will be on a democratic, coop- erative basis. It is this last phase which arouses the human heart. Certainly democracy is noble, and cooperation the delight of humanitarians. In this...
...NOSE, on the watch or lookout...
Percy Haughton's recent book, Football and How to Watch It (Doran), is addressed to the laymen in the stands as well as to the players on the field. It is designed to relieve a great deal of the strain felt by the unhappy undergraduate who takes a young lady to the game and has to devote all of his time to explaining to her that the object is not murder but pleasure...