Word: brice
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...difficult to discover what class of scatter-brained women Panorama was intended primarily to interest. The first issue contained an able and informative article on Arthur Brisbane by John K. Winkler (biographer of Hearst). On the next page was a remarkable photograph of a giant tortoise. Fannie Brice told her "own story" and some Indians were observed worshipping God-in-Nature on a mountain peak (via Underwood & Underwood photograph). Mrs. Stillman wrote on Paris fashions, not far from a huge photograph of herself. The U. S. institutions discussed-and apparently believed in-were "West Point-Its Idea" and "Broadway-from...
...dialog into its The Lion and the Mouse, Glorious Betsy, Tenderloin. These films run along quietly and then, at dramatic moments, burst into dialog. The effect is startling, but often annoying. Vitaphone plans the following new talking and singing films: Al Jolson in The Singing Fool, Fannie Brice in My Man, Dolores Costello in Noah...
...Schireson, whom the American Medical Association has ostracized for years but whom it could not prevent practicing in Illinois, has straightened Actress Fanny Brice's nose, removed fat from "Peaches" Browning's legs, and sued Lady Diana Manners for payment of work on her face. One of his publicity men once sued him for $50,000 for services rendered and he was in jail for more than one term, according to records of the American Medical Association...
Robust burlesque maidens and gentlemen in baggy trousers have been marching across U. S. stages these many years; marching, singing, telling jokes. Among them have been such major artists as Jim Barton, Clark and McCullough, Fanny Brice, the late Bert Williams, Belle Baker, Weber and Fields, David Warfield, Grace La Rue. Often the jokes have been off color; often the robust maidens have been elaborately exposed, so often that burlesque is often considered a rowdy industry. Sam A. Scribner, onetime circus man, fighting for years against unsavory shows, brought his Columbia wheel to a point of considerable respectability. In spite...
Authorities knew that the message came from a tiny emergency radio set aboard the Dawn. So many hours had she been missing that they knew she was down at sea. Rising, falling somewhere on the winter waves were Mrs. Grayson, Norwegian Pilot Oskar Omdal, Navigator Brice Goldsborough, Fred Keohler, Wright engine expert...