Word: ann
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the curtain be rung down. He was rewarded by impolite and illbred hoots from the gallery, by blows and shouts from the actors. Even the producer and his lawyers flocked about Captain Layne, threatening lawsuits. They attempted to make speeches but were pulled roughly from the stage. Ann Davis, leading lady, attempted to make a speech but swooned when prevented and was later discovered to have taken too much veronal. At last the theatre was darkened, the crowd went home, the policemen made statements and the reporters wrote stories, in the case of the enraged reporter...
...Ann Pennington, a little older* than she was at first, flung herself here and there in the motions of a new dance called Pickin' Cotton. Frances Williams shuffled also while she sang a song of which the words were "What d'ya Say?" Creeping forth from his cool cabaret with enhanced joie de vivre, Harry Richman shouted "I'm on the crest of a wave. . . ." As in all of Producer White's assemblies, the footwork in the Scandals was swift and spry, attended to by Tom Patricola, a pair of coordinated sisters, a well-coached chorus...
...Abby. 27 Blanchard, Estele. 52 Blettner, Edlyn. P Bloom, Ada. 22 Bordont, Irene. 21 Atwater, Mary. 31 Averill, Ada. 54 Averill, Dottie. 54 Ayres, Frances. 50 Bourneuf, Charlotte. 48 Brady, Helen. 62 Brigham, Barbara. 18 Brown, Alice. 43 Browne, Mary. 58 Bucknau, Bettins. 44 Bushway, Bunny. 28 Butler, Mary Ann...
Physically he is frail, and, when working hard, fidgety. The condition is largely the result of an accident a score of years ago. He was on a week-end visit at the country home near Milwaukee of Ann McEldin Douglass, his fiancee.* Mrs. Douglass with the young people was at the railroad station. Along the tracks went an express train, and across the tracks a huge St. Bernard dog. The train batted the huge dog through the air. The dog struck Mr. Dillon in the stomach and knocked him toward a lamp post. On the way he struck Mrs. Douglass...
...volume printed for the William Clements Library of Ann Arbor, Michigan, and also designed by Rogers, was placed on the list. Its title is Franklin's Proposals for the Education of Youth...