Word: pleasingness
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"I see no reason for believing that what brings pleasure to the musician is any higher or nobler than that which brings pleasure to the normal human being," etc.; assuming of course that all musicians are either ab or sub-normal, and that no normal person can be a musician...
"Daddy Long-Legs", Jean Webster's popular comedy which was made famous on the stage by Henry Miller and Ruth Chatterton, and on the screen by Mary Pickford, was successfully produced last Monday night by the Arlington Players at the Arlington Theatre. It is not surprising that such a story...
But the standard was not maintained. The club easily fell into a slump. The inducement of a 2000-mile Christmas trip to the chief cities where loyal alumni trotted forth adulatory debutantes in honor of bum actors, but ball-room luminaries; and the influence of the typical Broadway musical comedy...
The "Taming of the Shrew" was produced last week for the first time by this company and showed promise of future brilliancy. The company played it with a snap and dash slightly dimmed by an apparent uneasiness about the lines. Mr. Hampden's Petruchio was pleasing but violent.
Alfred Lunt plays the part of Clarence with great discretion and a humorous touch that is simple and unaffected. Viola Harper is a second "Bab," and Russell Medcraft is quite remarkable as the 17-year-old man-of-the-world; his acting, in a part that could easily, be spoiled...