Word: chocking
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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SENATOR SMOOT (Rep.): "Chock full of common sense...
...should an artist wait until her career is ended to write her reminiscences?" cries Maria Jeritza* on the first page of her memoirs.† She has answered the question by publishing them in midcareer. Her book is chock-full of merry notes, and will be greedily devoured by lovers of personal chit-chat about beautiful and important people. There is the story of the strong-man Graff 1, who played Ursus in the opera Quo Vadis, and had to hold the prima donna in his arms for ten minutes at a time. "But oh," wails Jeritza, "how many times...
Seldom since the first appearance of Charlie Chaplin has any audience laughed so continuously as at the first evening of "The Whole Town's Talking". The play was so chock full of clever sayings, funny situations, and pure farce that every minute had its sixty seconds' worth of laughs. And when not laughing, there was Catherine Owen to look at--and this certainly was no come-down. On the whole "an enjoyable evening was had by all" who were present...