Word: dedecorus
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...ability to act as well as to wear well were remarked by the critics. In The Humming Bird she has forsaken completely her troupe of trained sequins and adopted boy's clothes. Her part is that of an Apache leader in the Paris slums who leads her dedecorus dragoons to the battle front at the first call of war in 1914. There is, of course, the handsome American newspaperman. Newspapermen are always handsome on the stage, just as actresses are chronically impious in the headlines. The rumble of drums and the whispers of intrigue dwindle in time for American...