Word: chic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Charles Partlow ("Chic") Sale, 51, rube vaudevillian and author (The Specialist); of lobar pneumonia; in Hollywood. Originally a bewhiskered mimic of old hicks, he was famed for his earthy, hayseed wit, his tearful portrayal of a G.A.R. veteran scuffling down the road to the poorhouse. Proud of his resemblance to Abraham Lincoln, he made the privy theatrically acceptable...
...Wisconsin, but his work in the Union shows there made him set his mind on one single thing, motion pictures. In 1915 Grinde cooled his heels waiting to see a famous director to ask him for a job. He gave up waiting and took to the greasepaint road as Chic Sale's publicity manager. Years later Nick was directing Joan Crawford in a picture. One of the extras was the once-famous director. Grinde is now on the Warner Brothers lot and you may have seen his latest, Public Enemy's Wife...
...people know that Chic Sale's name, strict speaking, is Charles Partlow Sale. He was born Huron, S.D., 51 years at within sight of one of the structures he made famous in The Specialist. Ledges has it that Chic because "Chic" because he ran chicken farm near Madison Wis., between vaudeville engagements. Sale near got beyond the public schools in the shadow University of Illinois, be the Illinois Sigma made him an honored member...
Their youngest son, Prince George, married chic Princess Marina of Greece. After George II was restored, British armament firms angling for Greek orders were delighted at commands from the Admiralty which sent into Greek waters several crack ships of the British Navy on what Athens newsorgans said was a "demonstration cruise." British armament salesmen then began to make Athens night life pop with champagne and throb with jazz as Greek officers were taken over the jumps of pleasure, with hopes high that they would sign on dotted lines the mornings after...
...second act, on the other hand, are used "for a program which we did not wish to become too hilarious." Occidentals are likely to find that Lady Precious Stream is, in its own way, fairly hilarious all the way through. "Let it be clearly understood," begins the Honorable Reader, chic Yuen Tsung ("Maimie") Sze, daughter of Sao-ke Alfred Sze, Chinese Ambassador to the U. S. (TIME, Feb. 3),"that this unfurnished stage represents the scene of the picturesque garden of the Prime Minister, Wang Yun." When he appears, Wang promptly makes it known that he has two sons...