Word: dorsay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wisecracks as he does so. The story, adapted from a play by George Ade called Father and the Boys, shows how a dyspeptic and chronically disgruntled businessman becomes revitalized in an effort to outdo his lively offspring. His sons suspect him of reckless conduct with a vivacious lady (Fifi Dorsay), suspect that his nose, withdrawn from the grindstone, will become tarnished by inebriation. Instead, his lively antics cause him to regain health and good spirits so thoroughly that he suggests a line for his own epitaph: "Died in his infancy...
Mademoiselle Dorsay, who was obviously put into the cast to delight the masculine element in the audience, and to bring love life to the Swede, succeeded in doing both quite thoroughly. For the rest, the producer hired a lot of gentlemen with broken noses and created another gang-land picture. Mr. Lemon was a very simple Swede. Mr. McGee was a very complicated and very hard thug, whose cigars were of the definite variety. Both were Mr. Brendel. Both became involved with Miss Dorsay, calling her "Mees Yulee", or "that skoit" antiphonally. Both finally came to blows, and Mr. Brendel...
Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell will make a musicomedy containing the first music George ("Rhapsody in Blue") Gershwin has written for the cinema. . . . With 16 blonde, 5 redheaded actresses under contract, Fox has only three brunettes, none of them important: Maureen O'Sullivan, Fifi Dorsay and Sally Eilers. Newsworthy were these precipitations of the conference season that has been raging for the past three weeks in the film industry. Salesmen were exhorted; company officials read numberless addresses carefully prepared by their secretaries; hundreds of millions of dollars worth of directors, writers, actors, technicians were re-engaged; resounding phrases were...
...their first match of the season, the 1934 golfers lost to Exeter by the score of 7 to 2 at Exeter yesterday. The summary: M. F. Health '34 defeated Barber, Uup, eighteenth hole; Uullman defeated G. P. Bentz '34, 2 and 1; Wilson defeated H. D. Dorsay '34, 1 up, twelfth hole; Freeman defeated E. H. Taylor '34, 2 and 1; Williams defeated Bradley Collins '34, 2 and 1; T. D. Sullivan '34 defeated Warren, 1 up, twenty-third hole...
...eight men who will make the trip to Exeter tomorrow are as follows: Bradley Collins '34, H. D. Dorsay '34, M. F. Heath '34, G. P Hentz '34, William North '34, T. D. Suilivan '34, J. T. Summers '34 and E. H. Taylor...