Word: bordoni
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...Miss Patterson permitting her name and beauty secrets to be exploited thus, or whether they said: "Very pretty and sensible. She is following in the footsteps of Mrs. Nicholas Longworth and many another society woman with the best interests of Industry at heart, and of Julia Lydig Hoyt, Irene Bordoni, the Talmadge sisters and many another actress who has perceived the perfectly proper and logical sympathy that exists between cosmetic manufacturers and professional women, whose beauty is one of their assets...
...Miss Bordoni then turned from her dislike of the movies to a discussion of popular winter resorts. "The Riviera and Nice may be wonderful resorts, but no place on earth can approach the delights of Palm Beach. The climate on the Riviera is bad; in the sun you throw aside all your clothes, while nearby in a shaded street you have to be carefully wrapped in furs. But Palm Beach; just give me five months a year in Palm Beach--. Some one said I talked as though I was trying to sell real estate, but though I buy, I never...
...Naughty Cinderella" there were many terse, epigrammatic phrases, and also much broad, slap-stick comedy. The CRIMSON reporter asked Miss Bordoni which got across best with the average audience. "The slap-stick, as you call it, everytime makes the bigger; impression. That is because there are always more people upstairs than down...
When questioned about the apparently accidental breaking of a chair in the second act of "Naughty Cinderella" Miss Bordoni said. "On the opening night in Atlantic City it happened by accident, and the laugh was so tremendous that we could not get the attention of the audience for the rest of the evening. After that we made it part of the regular play...
...Miss Bordoni proceeded to illustrate the process of making love and reading a new version of the text at the same time. The strain was terrible, and then when we got to New York, photographers, interviewers, publicity all day long, and by evening I would go to the theatre, tired out, to be lively and vivacious. I have come to Boston for a rest; here no publicity has been necessary and I have been able to enjoy a little ease and peace...