Word: eleanors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, twice a widow, she became Miss Eleanor Collins in order to avoid the ubiquity of the press...
Undoubtedly these alluring advertisements are giving Shakespeare a popularity he has never enjoyed before. Eleanor Glyn, Robert Service, and all the other pygmies who mistake an anthill for Parnassus, may swell with new clation at the thought that Shakespeare is competing with them. But this unwonted fame may turn the true lover of Shakespeare to cynical thoughts and remind him of what Bismarck said when he was hissed by the populace of Berlin: "If I ever attain any degree of popularity, I shall know I have done something incredibly stupid...
Proud Flesh. The burlesque idea is gaining favor. Again the old-fashioned melodrama of the Spanish señorita, the laborer lover, the angry Spanish suitor is prepared. Its general age and weight are ridiculed. Eleanor Boardman, Harrison Ford and others are involved. Such productions are the cinema's saving sense of humor...
Married. Countess Eleanor Patterson Gizycka, granddaughter of the late Joseph Medill, sister of Joseph M. Patterson, publisher of the Chicago Daily Tribune, and The News, Manhattan gumchewers' sheetlet, cousin of the late Medill McCormick, U. S. Senator from Illinois, to Elmer Schlesinger, Manhattan lawyer; in Manhattan. Each has been divorced...
...There is singing by Ruth Gillette and LeRoy Duffield, in which the latter is forced to take his voice cruelly beyond its range. There is dancing by almost everybody, but more particularly by the diminutive Harrington sisters, the Trado twins (male), the Lockfords (m. and f.), Bessie Hay, and Eleanor Willems. Miss Willems also lent her good looks to several of the skits, in one of which she was as seductive as the censor would allow...