Word: fairly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Broadway--$.30-.40-.35.* $1.50 minimum. No cover. Sammy Liner's orchestra. Long floor show with Martin and Nixon, Rodney Ney, Ronnie Poe. The old May-fair; good place if one likes the cabaret atmosphere and would rather watch a floor show than dance. Mixed crowd. Dress optional...
Edward of Wales unbuttoned his double-breasted coat in London at the British Industries Fair. Plain to see, he wore no vest. British tailors promptly moved him down several numbers on their list of best-dressed Britons...
...dance: "It is just my interpretation of a white bird flying in the moonlight at dusk.'' Her tribute to Henry Sittenberg, who makes her fans: "Henry has been in the business for 40 years and since I began my dance at the World's Fair last summer his business has picked up 100%. He estimates that I have 1,000 competitors. ... He makes the best fans for me." Her family: "I bought my mother an orange grove near Los Angeles and I gave her a tractor for a birthday present. Her real name is Annette Kisling...
...home, and I could tell you which room." So says an unrepentant old sinner in Author Stong's latest bucolic melodrama. But the actions of Village Tale's unashamed characters speak even louder than their pungent words. This highly colored tale of country wickedness will, like State Fair and Stranger's Return, find a welcome in Hollywood...
...crowded with switchboards and phonographs, Ogden directs a propaganda for Basic English that is now worldwide, numbers such potent adherents as Britain's George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, Julian Huxley, America's John Dewey, Sweden's Sven Hedin, Japan's Y. Okakura. Small, spectacled, fair-haired, with a tight-lipped mouth like the late Calvin Coolidge's. from which purrs an endless stream of speech, 45-year-old Missionary Ogden is no fanatic but a scholarly enthusiast. Though he is a preacher of simplified language, he is capable of horrendous complexities, as when...