Word: damsels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Miss Ediss as Maggie Wylie belonged the honors of the evening, perhaps the best work was done by Mr. Clive, Mr. Mowbray and Mr. Hulse as the three brothers. Though slow in getting started, Mr. Buckler as the dunder-headed hero finished well. But Miss Standing, the noble damsel who enchanted Mr. Shand was not too enchanting. One wondered--but, Havers! Havers
...story. The hamlet of Argentan has been famous for its point-lace, of which the secret design has been lost. For this design, the local seigneur, wishing to present a magnificent robe to the Queen of France, has offered a handsome reward. In the village dwells a beautiful damsel, Rose-Marie. Her parents are very, very poor-in fact, the family starves, so Rose-Marie prays for help. As she rises from her knees, there is a knock at the door and the Wandering Woman, a mysterious figure, enters. She is well treated, adds her prayers to those of Rose...
...production has more than its fair share of novelties, chief of which is a deceptive lighting effect which changes girls in varicolored bathingsuits into marble statues in a wink. It also, by a painless amputation, obligingly transforms a damsel into the armless Venus de Milo...
...rapt flapper attention excited by tales of Joseph Hergesheimer's best seller. This is the least successful of the various Hergesheimer stories that have been hurled with some effect upon the screen. It seeks to reveal the spirit of the old pagan goddesses still inhabiting the modern society damsel - accomplishing this with gilded settings in Manhattan and Cuba, where the soul is so easily laid bare...
When King George and family went to open the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley (TIME, May 5) he espied a serving maiden and asked her if he might buy of her sweets. Said the damsel: "We cannot take money from Your Majesty." Returned George: "Then I won't take any of your sweets." So they parted...