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...Gild a Gray, beaded shimmy-dancer of the nervous '203, who is suing Columbia Pictures for $1,000,000 for invading her right of privacy with the movie Gilda, said in defense of her specialty: "The shimmy was an original aboriginal dance. It was an African, a savage dance. I gave the public food for thought...
...many years after the marriage of the Edisons that some officious crackpot attempted to gild the lily by changing the perfectly simple Morse code into the more difficult "International" code...
...deficient basic structure, it trims that structure superlatively. Jerome Kern's score provides most of the embellishment, with "Make Believe," "Ol' Man River," "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man," "Why Do I Love You," and "Bill" soaring over the footlights in the greatest procession of hits ever to gild a single production. And Oscar Hammerstein II has achieved in his otherwise drooping book a kind of graceful, turn-of-the-century nostalgia that dominates most of the evening...
Lilienthal's picture was timely (TIME, Aug. 4), but your attempt to gild this pink lily was a flop. "He brought power to 700,000 users, through 140 cooperatives." Stalin approves the process used, and also believes in "strong government," like Lilienthal. This man is a bad mistake−he doesn't stand for sound economics, free enterprise or American fundamentals. . . . This man will hurry us down the same socialistic path England is descending...
Bingo-Bango-Bungo. With his new riches, Billy began to gild the Rose. He acquired a fancy flat, a new wardrobe, a valet, an ornamental but vicious green macaw. In 1924, he got still another source of income: the Backstage Club, a little "speak" which he established over a garage on Manhattan's West 56th Street. Billy's shows, which were bingo-bango-bungo stuff even in those early days, soon made the club popular with the better type of bootleggers and gangsters of the Prohibition era. Joe Frisco was M.C., and to sing his song. Billy hired...