Word: florodora
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Casey at the Bat (Wallace Beery). As the original Sultan of Swat, Wallace Beery struts what was once the Great White Way, flirts with the girls of the Florodora Sextette, misbehaves toward his sweetheart Camille (Zazu Pitts) in a sporty buggy, thus forcing her to trudge a dusty homeward path; in short, does all the inept things possible for a lionized lump. The moot point is, why did he strike out with the bases full? The breath of scandal is finally deodorized by Luck and Love. The home-run king reigns on in left-handed magnificence...
...orchestra was playing "Tell Me, Pretty Maiden" from Florodora when Harry K. Thaw shot Stanford White. The architect, who had started to rise when he saw Mr. Thaw coming toward him, sank back into his chair with an expression of sudden weariness while a tide of slow vermilion spread like spilled wine across the bosom of his evening shirt. That was in June, 1906. Now Harry Thaw has written a book...