Word: dress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prize scenario, the same to be serialized in Liberty, and Fannie Hurst came first. This is the picture. It does not seem to be a desperately original invention, dealing as it does with a girl (Dolores Costello) stolen in babyhood and brought up as a model in a dress shop. She kills someone, and the matter of the death penalty for women is discussed in detail. The picture is exceedingly well directed by James Cruze, and played so well by Alice Joyce (the mother) as to eliminate any doubts as to its popularity...
...middle classes have-never done anything to the playwright. On the contrary they have been very nice about buying tickets and even sitting through entire productions. We wish Miss Nichols and her pals would lay off Apple Sauces, Abies Irish Roses, and White Collarses and give us more dress suit dramas. We favor uplift. Yah! "Y'rs. "GEORGE. "HENRY. "HERM...
...Capper is 60, slender, affects no polish of dress or manner, neither is he an aggressive type. He looks "like a country editor, grown into large estate"?and he is. He began life by learning typesetting on a small Kansas newspaper; he graduated into editorial work, became a reporter, city editor, Washington correspondent, publisher. He owns nine farm papers, with a combined weekly circulation of 1,500,000. He owns the Topeka Daily Capital, on which he began as a typesetter, besides another daily in Kansas City, a political weekly with a circulation of 600,000, and a "home...
Ethel Leginska, in a velveteen dress, with a puff of wiry hair spreading a determined aureole around her pale face, appeared, with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra as pianist, conductor, composer. Critics agreed that her suite, "Six Nursery Rhymes for Soprano and Small Orchestra," was amusing and adept; that the 85 gentlemen of the orchestra conducted her, rather than she them; that she is a brilliant pianist...
...Henderson was pained, exclaimed: "Let's not pass judgment on her. I think she dresses very properly, and if all women followed her style the country would be better off. Mrs. Coolidge is a woman of tremendous common sense. I have not seen her in all types of costume, but I have never seen her when her dress was not correct in every respect...