Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Each successive year the demands of the tired business man have brought the attire of the chorus girl nearer the dead line, but now with the revival of "The Black Crook" by Christopher Morely the bald headed row is at last given an opportunity to sit back and catch its breath. Absolute nudity is the limit of revelation, and the modern developments were approaching it with a dangerous speed. The day is saved, however, by Mr. Morley. The tide has been turned before it was too late...
...more exciting attractions of the present musical comedy must give way to the demands of modernity. The admirers of beauty unadorned may lament, but if the virtue of curiosity was to be retained in the human male, something had to be done. Tights and all, "The Black Crook" is dancing once more into public favor, and already the Flora Dora sextet is brushing the moth balls out of those glorious skirts that swept them into the laps of their millionaires...
...eight years of preparation, 21 days of trial, 590,000 words of testimony and 14 hours of deliberation by the jury, the Manhattan trial of Sir Joseph Duveen came, last week, to naught. Grey as the dawn in which they appeared, the jurymen reported a deadlock. Justice William Harman Black of the New York Supreme Court thanked and discharged them...
...incidental sketches of herself are quite as shrewd and quite as flattering. She says that Carl Van Vechten thought she should dress "very simply, in black, no headdress at all, no earrings, nothing but her own strange face." He raged at Robert Edmond Jones for jeopardizing his dramatic tastes by approving her passion for ''dressing up" in gaudy turbans and flaming ospreys...
American Chicle Co., (Black Jack and Kis-Me gum, Sen Sen breathlets) net, $1,795,268. Previous year...