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...this vindication, the victorious House of Commons Kitchen Committee, who had been defending the suit, demanded that Playwright Herbert be made to pay the costs of his whimsey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Lord High Honeymoon | 1/7/1935 | See Source »

...Jimmy and Sally," the other attraction at the Fenway is a pleasing but rather unimportant bit of the usual James Dunn whimsey-whamsey somewhat decorated by the presence of Claire Trevor...

Author: By H. F. K., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 12/21/1933 | See Source »

Indulgent parents built the Lampoon building so that Harvard's problem children could have the very nicest playhouse in all Cambridge, with towers and Dutch picture blocks and hidey-holes. They filled the nursery with stuffed goosies, Limpopo crocodiles and other whimsey things. Good children should play "I-Spy-the-Ibis" all by themselves and not go annoying busy grown-ups. If there is any more naughtiness, the funny old birds will be locked up for good in Agassiz Museum with the dead mooses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SHOPWORN TAXIDERMY | 4/28/1933 | See Source »

...from the enchanted castle they meet a glant and discover elves; all this in exquisite tinis and April airlness. What a clever hand Philip Boone must have, I said; and I turned to the pictures within to see how the other articles had expressed the spirit of whimsey which must twinkle in story books. I did not find dear Kate Green-away as I had hoped, but I was gladdened by the sight of eighteenth-century villagers dashing round the Mulberry Bush portrayed by the happy fingers of G. Cox; and Red Riding-hood's thatched cottage; with the villainous...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lampy Is Careful Not to Trample on Fond Memories in Wonderland Venture--Editors Hold Tone of Genial Fantasy | 4/13/1927 | See Source »

...Geddes' scenery. The magic of his perspective puts on the stage of a toy theatre, a mountain-top monastery accessible only by hoisting-basket. His heights are dizzy. Though psychoanalysts snickered, the play does weave a gentle enchantment that is not entirely crushed by the method of its whimsey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Jan. 10, 1927 | 1/10/1927 | See Source »

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