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Skimmed off the top of the froth, "Margie" is another throwback to the days of the flapper, raccoon coat and Stutz Bearcat. Told in easy retrospect, "Margie" is as pleasant as on evening over the family album, and as awkward as a picture of Mother conducting a high-school debate...
...News, with Hearst's Mirror and Bernarr Macfadden's now defunct Graphic, was the ribald historian of the flapper-speakeasy-whoopee '20s. They competed in a pell-mell rush to give Manhattan gum-chewers the lowdown on Fatty Arbuckle, Peaches Browning, Arnold Rothstein, Kip Rhinelander. The grisliest news-picture of the era-Murderess Ruth Snyder in Sing Sing's electric chair-was run by Patterson's personal order...
Married. Frances Heenan ("Peaches") Browning Hynes Civelli, 35, flapper-era child bride and later burlesqueen; and Ralph N. Willson, 36, former Columbus, Ohio picture-frame maker; she for the fourth time, he for the second; at Break-a-Heart Ranch, near Reno...
...season, grossing 210,000 francs ($1,763) a performance-a terrific take for present-day Paris. Entire families, from grand' mère down to ten-year-old Gabrielle, were trooping to see the show. They were seeing a spirited, shined-up Nanette. The Charleston-mad flapper of the '20s had become a Gallic jitterbug. In an atmosphere of glittering color and gorgeous chorines, Nanette (Claudine Cereda) writhed to boogie-woogie arrangements of Vincent Youmans' (see MILESTONES) I Want to Be Happy and crooned...
Last week Manhattan's aging, spry Dr. George B. McAuliffe, 81, a retired professor of otology who dabbles in the field of posture correction, voiced sinister warnings against the bust-flattening, underslung flapper figure which causes shifting of vital organs, general internal trouble. Dr. McAuliffe thinks American girls today are pretty good; their neat, trim figures, unhampered by unnecessary clothes, are the best nature has produced in this country. Let them stay that way, advised Dr. McAuliffe, and "let them dress as though it were always summertime...