Word: talenting
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According to the present plans, a song and dance specialty act will be procured from a show in town. This special talent will not be secured until a week before the dance...
...story of a young Scotchman who has talent, honesty, and courage, but the fatal weakness of indecision. Having failed in love and in his chosen career, he goes to India to retrieve his honor. There, on the Kashmir frontier, he faces his great test and, of course redeems himself in a rather heroic but thoroughly satisfactory fashion...
...entrance of the Marquise Eloise in the second act finally lets his audience know that his comedy, "The Marquise" is concerned about one naughty French lady of the eighteenth century. The play opened Monday night at the Repertory Theatre and in it Mr. Jewett, forgetting his passion for young talent, had the better and more experienced actors interpret the comedy...
...statement by Campbell Bascom Slemp, astute Virginian. Mr. Slemp, onetime (1923-25) private secretary to President Coolidge and until that evening known as an outstanding "Coolidge-anyway" man, confessed to personal Hooverism and virtually promised the hitherto uninstructed Virginia delegation (15 strong). Also, since Mr. Slemp's talent for delegate-charming is almost fabulous, and since he had just returned from a Southern tour, observers were inclined to credit Hooverism with the week's chief forward march...
...real name is at present Mrs. William Rose Benét, gained her literary reputation when she published, in 1921, a book of poems called Nets to Catch the Wind. After Black Armour, more poetry, she poured into a mold of prose the fluent and shining metal of her talent for metaphor. Jennifer Lorn was her first novel; The Orphan Angel and The Venetian Glass Nephew its successors. Author Wylie, her publishers announce with a show of pride, spent less than three months in writing her latest novel. This is an admission less damaging than it appears to be; Author...