Word: beaches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lost 25 lb. Paramount was pleased but Mae West told her to gain weight for Belle of the Nineties. She likes to play heavies. She says that anyone can be an ingenue but to be a menace takes action. She does a lot of swimming at the Beach Club in Santa Monica and plays a little tennis. She gives the kind of parties at which people go upstairs and dress in funny clothes, then come down and do acts. She knows a lot about music and likes musicians at her parties. She joined the company of Viva Villa...
...entrance to Havana Harbor stands a grey 300-year-old fortress called Morro Castle. On the sandy beach at Asbury Park, N. J. last week lay the smoking, fire-gutted, heat-wracked cadaver of a liner named after the fortress. Between Morro Castle and Asbury Park the Morro Castle passed through a maritime horror unequalled since the Vestris went down off the Virginia Capes (TIME...
...physician, stood at the rail with his father and stepmother. Plainly visible were the shore lights across the stormy waters. Dr. Phelps turned to his wife and said: "Katharine, that light over there must be Scotland Lisht and that one over there must be Ambrose. That means that the beach over there must be less than seven miles away. I think, dear, our one chance is to go over and try to make the beach on our own. Will you come?" Mrs. Phelps smiled through her tears and nodded. Then Dr. Phelps turned to his son and said: "Govvie...
Mary Louise Peck's impersonation of the Maid of Orleans was part of a pageant given last fortnight at semiswank Atlantic Beach Club on Long Island. Most of them scantily clad to represent such characters as Messalina, Mae West and Pocahontas, the performers included Swimmer Helen Meany, a semi-nude showgirl and that most formidable and ubiquitous of socialites. Mrs. S. Stanwood Menken. To dine and see the pageant 251 persons had bought tickets at $7.50 each and, to give the spectacle an air of righteous charity, the profits, if any, were to go to a local fire department...
Three of the beneficiaries quietly awaited their share of the money last week. But when Sister Mary Bertrand. Superioress of St. Joseph's Hospital, saw a newspicture of Mary Louise Peck as St. Joan, her vexation was great. She informed the Atlantic Beach Club that St. Joseph's Hospital would accept not one penny of the money thus raised. One Oakley Bidwell, the club's executive secretary, offered public apologies, insisted that what had offended Sister Mary Bertrand was nothing more than "a brief and dignified appearance on the stage of a young lady clad in the armor...