Word: angele
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...STREET ANGEL (Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell), Two LOVERS (Vilma Banky and Ronald Colman), GLORIOUS BETSY (Dolores Costello and Conrad Nagel...
Reading the far-flung accounts of this insignificant event, operagoers were at a loss to discover the reason for Miss Witwer's sudden prominence. Then they read what Miss Witwer's father, the mechanic, had told her after the concert: "You sang like a gol-durn angel." It became obvious that Miss Witwer was being groomed to enter the list of artistically mediocre "favorite daughters" of U. S. opera. Like Grace Moore (TIME, Feb. 20), Marion Talley (TIME, March 1, 1926), she would make her debut surrounded with newspaper reporters and home folks. If she made her debut...
...Street Angel. In the slums of Naples a mother is dying. Her daughter, Angela (Janet Gaynor), goes out on the streets to obtain money for medicine by selling herself. Arrested, sentenced to a workhouse, she escapes, finds employment with a traveling circus. And, as any botanist could have predicted, the rose of romance burgeons in the sawdust. In this case, the male principal is Gino (Charles Farrell), who paints minor masterpieces more often than he takes a bath. When Gino takes Angela back to Naples, the police recognize her and clap her into jail. When she is finally released, Gino...
...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 Wylie thinks before she writes and is therefore capable of producing...
...corrupt, the most venal and the most vicious body of men by which this nation has ever been afflicted."* At Denver it was "the snoopers and spies . . . like the lice of Egypt"-an anti-Prohibition speech (Denver being wet). The League of Nations took a lashing, too, as the Angel of Vengeance passed on to Albuquerque. Here he said: "I expect someone to say that 'Reed is merely destructive; he wants to destroy existing conditions.' Of course! Every time you want to change anything you must alter or destroy existing conditions." Then he set up the Republican "crooks...