Word: brightnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...readily perceive that such an imponderable plot must be fashioned mainly of talk. Since the talk is consistently bright and often brilliant the lack of incident is not a serious setback...
...situation is more encouraging. Helen Menken, Helen Gahagen, Margalo Gilmore, Winifred Lenihan, Katherine Cornell have all turned the earlier corners that mark the narrow road to greatness. Each one of these can show an American birth certificate. They are by no means alone in their eminence. Six or eight bright flashes from an even younger generation disturbed the calm of the season. Decidedly, there are abundant actresses...
...certain of the leading actors. It is uninteresting to the public to know that H. B. Warner, Dudley Digges and John Drew are normal gentlemen. As a publicity factor gentlemanliness is neglible. Yet their examples show that it is possible to make one's living from the bright side of the footlights without losing the respect of God and the Social Register...
...bright-faced, cheery, helpful youngster," so said E. Haldeman-Julius, Henry Ford of publishers, about Vol. I, No. 1, of his newest magazine venture (15 cents a copy, $1.50 a year). Over each of its pages it bears the heading: "KNOW THYSELF, GIRARD, KANSAS...
...year ago but five of the original group assembled, including in their number Adam Marty. This year 34 places were set as usual, shining with bright silver and glassware. In the center of the table, amid the decorations, rested the consecrated bottle. Thirty chairs were draped with black, among them Adam Marty's. One survivor was too decrepit to make the journey from his Florida home. But three men dined where once the 34 had supped. Too soon will the bottle's cork be pulled...