Word: witnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...McMein (illustrator, author), and Madge Kennedy. Since the latter was allowed to contribute her features as well as her brains she seemed the cornerstone. Many and far flimsier celluloid structures have been reared on less substantial bases. The pictorial narrative concerns itself with bootlegging, love and a woman's wit. It is more than moderately entertaining. When Miss Kennedy is on, it is decidedly exciting...
...Other Rose. Those who journey to the Morosco Theatre for the next month or two may expect to be submerged quietly and comfortably in a wave of innocuous benevolence. Mr. Belasco has established there a sunlit sea of pleasantness, rippled by waves of wit and wafted fitfully over the audience. Unhappily, the waters of this wave are rather flat and dead. There is no swirl of red romance; there is no salt sting of savory satire. The play is just a trifle too harmless to be regarded seriously as amusement...
SPRING CLEANING-Wit and wisdom from the supersophisticated philosophers of the English drawing-room...
Shaw's play is totally modernized. English, and even American slang salts the speeches of his characters. His mocking wit runs through it. Yet even Snaw's wit cannot destroy Shaw's emotion. In the writing of this play the old sinner and cynic writes himself down as an incorrigible idealist...
...symbol of all-around pianistic mastery. And in his recital he displayed the prodigious technique that has become a tradition of him and he displayed as well an imposingly architectural interpretation of Liszt and Beethoven. But Rosenthal enjoys a distinction other than purely musical, that of a wit...