Word: alison
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lady's husband is in turn involved with Mr. Warwick's wife and the virgin moves safely toward matrimony with a gracious man-about-town. The bedroom doors are all well oiled; they function silently, ceaselessly. What philosophy the play contains issues from the mouth of matronly Alison Skipworth as a Long Island Wife of Bath. Early in the evening she observes: "There is a spirit of unrest in the air, and one feels the breath of Eros blowing in from the garden." Later she delivers a homily on the piquancy of Victorian underwear. She also says...
...Alexander Alison Jr. (First Presbyterian Church, Bridgeport, Conn.) last week conducted a Honeymoon Reunion in his parish house. One hundred Alison-married couples attended. Many others sent regrets. The purpose: to discover the secret of a happy married life. Results...
...Said Mr. Alison's son, Valentine: "The secret is to have lasting love...
...acting in Hotbed is enough to make it somewhat exciting. William Ingersoll is the bad goodman, Alison Bradshaw his daughter, and Richard Stevenson the assistant professor detected in a process of seduction...
...Russel Grouse, columnist of the New York Evening Post, making his demure debut on the stage. For the antics of Columnist Grouse all critics had a pretty word to say. Walter Winchell of the New York Evening Graphic called him SourCrouse while the Actor-Journalist's wife, Alison Smith, able critic for the New York World, paid her husband the neatest compliment...