Word: wonderfull
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"It is often thought," said Professor Spalding, "that to listen to opera with its instantaneous appeal to the music lover needs no preparation. Such is not the fact. To know the plot, the libretto, the national school by which the opera is produced, whether it be Italian, French, German, or...
But Mark Kent is wonderful as a brow-beaten, nervous wreck, while Viola Roach, as Mrs. Valentine, is convincing in her indication of how his ruin was accomplished. Except in her sterner moments, Miss Roach's very laugh causes one's hair to stand on end; how Walter Gilbert and...
In the first act, the audience was astounded by a regular cabaret scene, with a table, a piano, and two short turns, each of which was loudly encored. Miss Jill Middleton proved to be a very satisfactory dancer, and Miss Bushnell recited a song with deadly effect. She recited the...
Lieutenant A. J. ("Al") Williams, formerly pitcher for the New York Giants, won the Pulitzer Race (at St. Louis) in a Curtiss-Navy racer at an average speed of 243.67 miles per hour over the triangular course of 200 miles. Lt. H. J. Brow in a similar machine averaged 241.78...
Francis White, vaudeville veteran: " A San Francisco reporter termed me ' an animated exclamation point.' In our interview, said I to him: 'I found a shop where I could get shoes, which is quite wonderful-for I wear a very small size.'"