Word: coy
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Venus of Venice (Constance Talmadge). The coy heroine dives frequently and attractively from the second story balconies of Venetian palaces into stagnant canal water in this trivially amusing comedy. She impersonates a gaminish thief. Antonio Moreno plays the harassed, handsome and wealthy hero who inevitably reforms...
...autobiography will sell these days without some pranks at Yale. So Mr. Lardner recalls football days under John Paul Jones, a grandfather of Coach Tad Jones. He tells how a big guard named Heffelfinger got called down for unclean nails; how Brinck Thorne got his neck tickled by Ted Coy. There actually are three men by those names, and Mr. Lardner knows it. Books have been written before this on the theory that people dislike seeing their names in print and will pay $1.75 to keep at least one copy out of circulation...
...GOES WET" said New York picture captions. Irving Berlin, singing waitter and song writer, captured fat headline space when he ran off with Ellin Mackay, daugher of the Clarence Mackay who runs the Postal Telegraph. The occasion: the first picture since the preciptous honeymoon. The "papa and mama": a coy reference to their baby daughter. The "wet": Composer Berlin entering the surf at Palm Beach...
...talent, and reads like a combined football and baseball lineup. The hero, Norman Rockwell, is portrayed by R. H. Booth '27, who is aided in his strenuous role by his pitching experience on last year's championship university baseball team. He is enamoured of one. Mary West, coy maid of the great open spaces, whose charms are subtly interpreted by Howard Whitmore '29, star not only of the stage but also of last year's Freshman team pitching staff...
Valencia (Mae Murray). Dimitri Buchowetzki wrote the scenario, directed the production of a ham idyl that tells how Valencia of Barcelona, coy charmer, preferred a handsome sailor (Lloyd Hughes) to a smirking Governor (Roy D'Arcy). Clumsy framework pokes through a cheesecloth illusion...