Belles, beaux and brains of the 60's . tygirls—I think reinforced—all doing something useful, looking in mirrors, sewing, kneadingdough, scraping lint or in-dulging in animated flirtationwith such good-looking fel-lows as Shirley Carter,Stewart Symington, TomPrice, Tom Ferguson andtheir partners in that fineart. A veracious chroniclerreminds me that the wordwas not guessed, but had tobe announced—of course thefault of audience, not ofactors. Harum-scarum, the sec-ond word, changed to lushOrientalism. Its first scene showed Miss Enders as a gor-geous Sultana. Around her grouped the recent duste
Belles, beaux and brains of the 60's . tygirls—I think reinforced—all doing something useful, looking in mirrors, sewing, kneadingdough, scraping lint or in-dulging in animated flirtationwith such good-looking fel-lows as Shirley Carter,Stewart Symington, TomPrice, Tom Ferguson andtheir partners in that fineart. A veracious chroniclerreminds me that the wordwas not guessed, but had tobe announced—of course thefault of audience, not ofactors. Harum-scarum, the sec-ond word, changed to lushOrientalism. Its first scene showed Miss Enders as a gor-geous Sultana. Around her grouped the recent dusters,transformed to odalisques, their recent swains still hand-somer in turbans and bags. Irrepressible Miss BuckPreston tried to look demure severity as the duenna, andmaidens and slaves played the zither or danced in Jenness-Miller integuments before their mistress. The second word touched on horrors, a weird and sheet-clad spectre (General P. M. B. Young) affrighting lasses andladdies as he stalks unrevenged among us. The whole. ROBERT A. DOBBIN BELLES, BEAUX AND BRAINS OF THE SIXTIES 221 word, guessed by several in front, showed romping girlsand giddy youths, all in the fullest enjoyment of tricks uponone another, skipping rope and indulging in similar innocentrecklessness. Presto! The stage has changed to a street. Mrs. Ives, asa thin woman, and Robert Dobbin, as a fat man, meet aquack. His pills, per placard, cure fat and make the leanobese. Purchase is made, and the next scene shows thereduced Dobbin prancing airily and Mrs. Ives puffing undergreat access of flesh. The same street suffices for second syllable. Here a richand acrid Gradgrind is importuned by a wretched pantomime tells clearly that she is starving; she pointspiteously to the little boy, tugging for release from her firmgrip, his real tears running down his face. But the rich manfrowns, glowers and strides away, the woman eloquentlybeseeching the boy not to weep. The beggar (Mrs. Semmes),calle
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