Word: gay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rich, social. It drinks hard, plays hard. Especially on its socialite Main Line northwest of the city-in Radnor, Haverford, Merion, Ardmore, Bryn Mawr -where live the people who appear in the Sunday society supplements, is life regarded as a cocktail free to all who would drink. Such gay communities as socialite Philadelphia are ripe for tragedy. Last week tragedy appeared there...
...Clapp, Gr., Daniel Draper, '34, A.B. Duel '35, B.B. Field '32, E.E. Gaskill, Gr., R.C. Gay '35, W.H. Goodson, Gr., W.F.R. Haigh, '33, F.E. Johnson '35, V.N. Keller '34, J.L. Magro '32, J.P. Lake '35, F.G. McLarty Gr., E.H. Rigg '34, B.C. Schmidt...
...ceasing entirely to be Helen Hayes and becoming instead the woman whose life story she portrays, Cinemactress Hayes makes the familiarity of the story double its sadness. As a young girl, she is gay and tender; as a jailbird, she chatters to a friend (Marie Prevost) about her son; as a prostitute, she squeals for money in barrooms and drums up her trade without ever making the error of playing for the audience's sympathy. The picture is well directed by Edgar Selwyn, splendidly acted by the rest of the cast?particularly by Jean Hersholt as an old physician...
...schooled at Fort Smith, Syracuse, Houston and Rochester, minor league teams maintained by the St. Louis Cardinals as developing ground for young players. Tried as a substitute in 1928, he became a regular when St. Louis traded Centrefielder Taylor Douthit to Cincinnati last summer. Gay, generally grimy, accompanied by a wife who cried whenever he made a hit, hawk-faced Pepper Martin last week seemed highly pleased with himself and the World Series. Interviewed by fuzzy-headed Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, who said he would like to change places with him, Pepper Martin retorted: "O. K. ... If you'll swap...
...only three and one-half Marx brothers. When the Marx Brothers were playing Animal Crackers on the stage, Producer Sam H. Harris said to him: "Can't you get a little more variety into your performance?" Replied Zeppo: "Just how many ways are there of saying yes?" The Gay Diplomat (RKO Radio) is a routine spy story which contains the one necessary new factor in the spy story formula. This factor consists in having two beautiful women both suspected of being spies. One of them, the heroine (Genevieve Tobin), proves to be innocent. The other (Betty Compson) is trapped...