Word: dix
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lynne, a scene from King John, bits from Pagliacci and Carmen, a radio sketch, a musicomedy sketch, a torch singer, several other singers, three masters of ceremonies (one male, one female, one indeterminate), a Florodora act, etc., etc. Best act by far is a burlesque sketch in which Mae Dix, onetime Minsky burlesque girl, becomes drunk, disrobes, does strange things with her famed indiarubberlike stomach. Dorothy MacDonald also disrobes, more teasingly. At the beginning of the burlesque sketch, members of the claque run up & down the aisles selling "Feelthy pictures, feelthy pictures, Martha Washington candies...
Founded in 1839, Hollins was Virginia's first chartered institution for young ladies, first in the U. S. to adopt an elective system of studies, first to establish an English department under a full professor. It has some 8,000 alumnae, including Adviser to the Lovelorn Dorothy Dix (Mrs. Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer). First president of Hollins was Charles Lewis Cocke, member of an old Virginia family, professor at Richmond College. Hollins became more & more in his debt until in 1900 the college was deeded to him. The following year he died. His daughter Matty L. Cocke became president...
...wars and the bandits whistle in the treetops. The chief bandit is Voronsky (C. Henry Gordon) whose whispered name is enough to send Chinese Paul Reveres scudding over the country. Huddled against Voronsky's coming are the whites under the leadership of a drunken riverboat captain (Richard Dix). They stand off Voronsky with a machinegun, between intervals of comic relief by Zasu Pitts as a handkerchief-wringing tourist and Edward Everett Horton as a timid lover. Gwili André, a beauteous mannequin who deserted the fashion magazines for Hollywood, is the mysterious refugee suspected of being Voronsky...
...States" as "an artist who paints with words," paints the following unforgettable scene: "From the western slopes of the Appalachian chain, the water drains to the Mississippi, and the great plains begin." Authoress Faith Baldwin, introduced by Author Achmed Abdullah, writes of "Love and Romance," estimates that Colyumist Dorothy Dix is the best public advisor on such tender themes. Contributor Edward L. Bernays, writing the blurb for "Women" innocently observes: "Forty-nine percent of the population are of the feminine sex. And yet women still seem to be the perennial novelty that they have always been...
...middle of it Monica faints. Joe learns from her that she, his only consolation, must go away. An illegal operation has infected her and she is doomed. Gradually the household betake themselves to bed and Authoress Dix reviews them as they lie, wrapped in their several irremediable miseries. With a Chekhovian eye for the follies and pettinesses that have jockeyed her characters into their blind alleys, Authoress Dix, hitherto a writer of juvenile books, has not the Chekhovian restraint to leave them there, to wither or to work their way out. She writes in judgment, like the blight...