Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pavlova started dancing at eight. Her mother had taken her, a thin, bright-eyed child, to see Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty danced in a St. Petersburg theatre. Pavlova instantly fancied herself as the heroine. She wanted to be a dancer but the Imperial Ballet school would not accept children under ten. She studied by herself for two years, then entered the school. At 16 she was prima ballerina at the Imperial Opera. Her U. S. debut was at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House in 1910. The performance began at 11:00 p. m. The audience kept her dancing and bowing...
...race. Questioned as to whom he knows in England, breezily says he : "Why, Lady Goldstein, Lord Cornbloom, Archbishop Shapiro . . ." and finding that his restaurant, pressing and trucking businesses are doing well, he inquires: "What's the matter, has Hoover resigned?" Assisting him in his antics is Lyda Roberti, a thin, blonde girl with a pronounced mid-European accent, carefully billed as the daughter of a famed Polish clown. Giddy, giggling Miss Roberti amiably submits to a great deal of gross mistreatment, puts one song ("Sweet & Hot") over after several other people in the cast have failed, generally helps...
...seven: Robert Strawbridge Jr., Stephen ("Laddie") Sanford of the open-champion Hurricanes, and Stewart Iglehart of the young Old Aikens. In the great first flight of polo-the internationalists-they left Thomas Hitchcock Jr. at the highest possible rating of ten goals, raised to nine goals his teammates, long thin Winston Guest of Long Island and stocky, long-driving Eric Pedley of California. Only surprise: what happened to the Hoppings, Earle Sr. and Jr. Young Earle, although a member of the winning international team, was left at his old handicap of eight. Old Earle was reduced from seven...
...gamble. But in the piece under consideration the odds are no more than even. It is a play with a decided number of good hearty laughs, is well staged, and is at least adequately cast. But none the less you come away feeling that at best it was awfully thin stuff...
This can hardly be held against it, as long as it amuses, and yet comparing it to "The Bachelor Father," another and much more amusing endeavor of Dr. Belasco's, it ends up far in the ruck. The thin matter, of which the play is cast, happens in this case to be illegitimacy of birth, but in this instance it is prospective not retrospective...