Word: drunken
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fort Wayne, Joliet and Peoria, 111.; from Charleston, Little Rock, Memphis, St. Louis, Kansas City, and Tulsa, Okla., branded their shinbones and burned their heels, clutched each other, pumping, weaving, while the fiddles whimpered and the drums pitapated. "CHARLEston," said the pipsqueak piccolos, "CharleSTON," sang the clariboes, "CHARLESTON." the drunken night-horns caroled, hoarse and sweet. The long-haired bimboes, the pool-parlor cowboys, street-sheiks, bullyboys, soda-jerkers, danced with their minnies from the sticks, sundae-sallies with naughty eyes. Mayor Stoney gave the prize to Freddie Danidel and Anna Duvall of Memphis as the best from the South...
...Rain" is a play of unusual mechanical workmanship. Its main theme is unquestionably depressing, but it is so thoroughly woven with comedy that the pill is given a most palatable sugarcoating. Mr. Holmes is most delightful as the Falstaffian landlord, Mr. Rogers is as convincingly a drunken sailor as there ever was on or off the stage. But above all, there is Miss Eagels...
Mike. A lot of cute animal life, a brood of children and a bunch of hardened males are tumbled together in a story which has bad patches of dullness. It is about a girl who lived in a caboose and cooked for her drunken but hard-working father...
Vere Reynolds and William Royd are not nearly so effective as they were in "The Road to Yesterday." Charlie Murray walks away with the picture in a very silly drunken burlesque. Boyd's pleasant boyishness is deadened by steel furnaces and all those dandy things we used to explore on Chemistry excursions. In fact the whole picture recalls those happy if undignified romps through founderies and sulphuric acid plants. We've wondered since how such industries could go on with all of First Year Chemistry playing hide-and-go-seek among the Bessemers...
...libretto for A Light from St. Agnes was taken from a play written and acted by Minnie Maddern Fiske. The theatrical lady placed the scene near her birthplace, in a tough Louisiana town. Toinette (heroine) is the unsavory mistress of Michel, drunken leader of drunks. The curtain rises upon a chapel lit by a rose window and the interior of a hovel. Within the chapel rests the body of Agnes Devereaux, saintly lady. The village priest tells Toinette that Agnes Devereaux has made her the especial object of her benevolence, and Toinette is about to soften into sullen goodness when...