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Word: annes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Peggy-Ann. Aided bv Gilbertian satire, Broadway slapstick, attractive dancers, the pepper of quick wisecracks, the charm of music, Peggy-Ann skipped right up to the head of the class in current musical diversions. Peggy-Ann (Helen Ford), a Cinderella in love with a penniless prince, falls asleep, dreams a crazy romance of department store and Cuban summer resort adventure. Helen Ford and Lester Cole sing the song hits, "In His Arms," "A Tree in the Park." Lulu McConnell, stylish stout comedienne, Charlestbns, croons, while pretty Betty Starbuck, as a clownish brat, keeps the audience a-roaring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Jan. 10, 1927 | 1/10/1927 | See Source »

...Cheerful Fraud. To win Ann Kent (Gertrude Olmstead), beauteous social secretary to opulent Mrs. Bytheway, Sir Michael Fairlie (Reginald Denny) bows himself into the position of social secretary to Mr. Bytheway. Ann Kent makes all the trouble seem worthwhile when she falls victim to the fraud and becomes Lady Michael Fairlie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Jan. 10, 1927 | 1/10/1927 | See Source »

...Half Way Down", a play in one act, supposedly a curtain raiser, proves that at least one Radcliffe soul has found the sawdust path to salvation better than the primrose avenue to disbelief. Ann, a shop girl whose diction approaches Thirty Third Street to retreat to Park Avenue, meets Father Time in the ringed arena of keen dialectic, vide Bruce Barton, and wins by faith alone. "There is a God", she cries, and all the little birds fly home to their nests and old father sun winks at little Johnnie Skunk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 1/7/1927 | See Source »

...following excerpts were taken from the speech made Ey Dr. Henry Noble MacCracken, President of Vassar College, at the meeting of the National Student, Federation in Ann Arbor, lastweek...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Not Trusted by College Presidents Asserts MacCracken | 12/10/1926 | See Source »

...following article is a speech by Dr. S. P. Duggan, a Director of the Carnegie Institute and the Institute of International Education, given at the conference of the National Student Federation of America which was held last week at Ann Arbor, Michigan. In his speech Dr. Duggan compared the spirit of education in Europe and the United States, and urged the formation of junior colleges to give present Freshman and Sophomore years in affiliation with a few great universities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Duggan Compares Educational System of Europe With That of United States | 12/9/1926 | See Source »

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