Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Henry Hull, probably the most engagingly agitated youth on our stage (unless it be Glenn Hunter), gave his usual full measure of amusement. Genevieve Tobin, a younger leading lady to whom some attribute considerable competence and others nothing but a pretty face, gave one of her less likable performances. Katherine Alexander, certainly more completely equipped as an actress, gathered most of the critical generosity in a secondary part...
...song or two that will serve and Hal Skelly and Joe E. Brown (he has a wide mouth) trying hard to squeeze comedy out of commonplaces-these help occasionally. Most of the singing is discouraging and the costumes something less than smart. There is a plot about a youth who boasted he could run and then was matched against a champion. The huge trousers sers of Mr. Brown are easily the most important feature of the entertainment tainment...
...benefit of those who know the name and not the substance of the Peter Pan legend, let it be said that Peter is a figure of eternal youth who takes certain mortal children to his strange Never Never Land and there introduces them to curious adventures with Indians and Pirates. In the end, the mortal children leave him and he bids them adieu from his home in the Never Never treetops...
...first time since the founding in 1886 (save only one year, 1895), the American Federation of Labor was without Samuel Gompers as its President. He had been a worker and leader of workers from youth. Born in 1850, the eldest son of Dutch Jews, he came to the U. S. when only 15, already a cigarmaker by trade. A year later, he helped to organize the Cigarmakers' International Union and became its first Secretary. He took part in the formation of both the New York State Federation and the American Federation of Labor...
...Alfred E. Stearns, Headmaster of Phillips Andover Academy (Andover, Mass.) : "If the church is not getting an adequate response to its appeal to youth, something must be wrong with the appeal...