Word: gilliland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Berault, who was sentenced to death for duelling and paroled by Cardinal Richelieu in time to achieve fortune and a beautiful partner for the final curtain, there is proper material for brocaded dresses, sword play, romantic songs and fustian foolery. All this has been contributed. Helen Gilliland, an English actress, sings when she drops her white glove and on other occasions. For dancing, there are girls very Chester Hale and hearty. Barry Lupino, British clown, is funny without being dirty...
Three Principals of "The Red Robe" a musical comedy now appearing in Boston, will attend the dancing after the performance of "Fiesta", the Dramatic Club's fall production, tomorrow night. Helen Gilliland, leading lady of "The Red Robe", will be present for the dancing, as will be present for the dancing, as will Manilla Powers and Marjorie Peterson, who are also principals in the musical play...
...most part the music is no more than characteristic, "king of the Sword", "Believe in Me", and "What-ever It Is, I've Got It" are near-exceptions rendered with unction by Walter Woolf, Helen Gilliland and Lupino. The book is an in-and outer. A line drawn from the best of the gags--"Familiarity breeds attempt"--would bisect a line from the worst, which is something about horse and hoarse, somewhere near "Do you believe in the hereafter?.... Well,that's what I'm here after...
...James Gilliland Simpson, Canon of St. Paul's Cathedral, London, visiting the U. S., attended the dinner of the Church Club, in Manhattan. After the banquet was over, he rose to his feet, looked fixedly toward the ceiling and delivered a short oration on U. S. customs and eccentricities. Said he: "... I have not yet summoned up courage enough to enthrone myself like Buddha in one of your shoeshine parlors...
...relay, for women: M. McCartie, M. Gilliland, M. Hassard, K. Carlson of the City Bank Club (Manhattan...