Word: fifi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before long, his keen and roving eye for the aesthetic beauty of the female figure caused him to enlarge the focus of his attention. He produced a dignified operetta called The Red Feather and another more sprightly beauty show called Mile, Fifi. His first wife was Anna Held, who starred in this show, became famous for singing "I Can't Make My Eyes Behave," and who had the narrowest waistline in the U. S. at a time when such details commanded favorable notice...
...produce in the last. Not so for Zoe Akins, who wrote The Furies. The news arrives, it is true, in the first act, that somebody has shot John Sands. The second act is given over almost entirely to heartless catechism conducted by a district attorney. The third finds Fifi Sands imprisoned in a skyscraper apartment with the lunatic who, because he had loved Fift and was afraid to let her divorce his friend and marry another man, had killed her husband. But the thread of evidence is only one of the strands drawn through the astonishing tapestry of this play...
Less superlatively staged, the play might have seemed no more than sound and furies signifying nothing. But James Reynold's elaborately perfect settings surrounded a practically flawless cast which in turn surrounded the magnificent performance of Laurette Taylor as Fifi Sands. Laurette Taylor was born on April Fools Day some time ago; she is married to Playwright J. Hartley Manners, in whose most famed opus, Peg o' My Heart, she entranced more than 600 Manhattan audiences. That was 15 years ago. Now Laurette Taylor is a better actress than ever...
...mother, Mrs. Anne ("Fifi") Stillman, is a gypsyesque person. On the Grande Anse estate in Quebec she moves about with her short dark hair in a bandanna and her legs bare and browned above mannish socks. She is a sort of Empress to the "primitives" of the surrounding wilderness. They do her lightest bidding because they regard her, informal and feline, as their equal on their own ground, plus much mysterious charm and knowledge from an unimaginable outer world of limousines, libraries, lingerie and grand manners. Her wealth seems fabulous to them, inspiring not envy but institutional faith. They prefer...
...Tribune, in Chicago, where Mrs. Stillman was once the debutante "Fifi" Potter, and whither she seldom returns, put all the animus of constitutional vulgarity into its headline: "FIFl HURLS CUPS AND SALAD AT NEWSPAPER MEN." The Tribune account, a copy of which had to be toned down for the Tribune's New York offspring (Daily News), gloated over "the pottery barrage and the volley of language which accompanied it?language familiar to the gaudy-sashed lumberjacks but seldom heard at social functions." There was a besmirching leer in the Tribune's subhead: "Four Trucks of Booze." And when the bride...