Word: barmaids
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...Russian wife. All three were killed. Dr. Robert Karl Reischauer, Princeton University lecturer, acting as a tourist guide for the summer, had his leg torn off in the Palace hotel lobby. He died on his way to the hospital. Death came too, to an Australian-born U. S. barmaid known to Shanghai simply as Dodo Dynamite...
...dining room will imitate an English tap-room and baronial hunting lodge. During supper a singer in the red-coated uniform of a master of the hounds will be accompanied at the piano by a girl dressed as a barmaid...
...less than 25 numbers. Beatrice Lillie appears in about one out of every three. If the measure of a comic is the extent to which she is superior to her material, Comedienne Lillie rates second to none. Whether she is impersonating a British gentlewoman, an Alpinist, a geisha, a barmaid or a star-crossed lover in a railway station, she never fails to convey by a twinkle in her eye, a snicker, a gesture, that she is enjoying quite as much as the audience the fool she is making of herself...
...Hayes) and an anti-social introvert with a persecution complex (Otto Kruger). The trouble starts when Benjie goes to China instead of marrying Vanessa immediately. When he gets back, the manor house burns down and she suspects him of cowardice in not rescuing her father. Hurt, Benjie marries a barmaid. Dismayed, Vanessa marries the introvert. Not until Benjie has lost an arm, Vanessa's husband has died from the shock of seeing a Christmas present, and an old friend of the family (Henry Stephenson) has predicted that there is no way out, do Benjie and Vanessa reach first base...
...pair entered vaudeville through the back room of a Brighton, England barroom. Their mother, an unmarried barmaid, sold the infants to the proprietors, a family named Hilton, for exhibition purposes. The Hiltons' daughter married one Rothbaum who changed his name to Meyer Meyers and took the twins to the U. S., where their stage and sideshow appearances earned enough for a mansion at San Antonio, Tex. and a portfolio of securities...