Word: girl-friend
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HAVE you ever had that disposing before Christmas, teaching You know the one I inform what shall I buy my room mate. Or what shall I buy the boy friend (or girl-friend)? That blank moment when you would just as soon jump into the next river as look at another gift shop. Along with a few of our editorial aides, we have taken all of the grief out of this year's Christmas buying with a finely chosen (we were going to say something about a fine-toothed comb, but who ever heard of combing a book?) list...
...Harold Stromberg when suddenly comes the report of a revolver. Next scene occurs in the fatal room itself with Mr. Stromberg?acted by cinema villain Roy D'Arcy (The Merry Widow) ?lying near death from a gunshot wound. Grouped about him are his henchmen and his beauteous blonde girl-friend Babette Marshall, whose part is taken by the suntanned companion of the late Gambler Rothstein, Inez Norton, a stroke of showmanship calculated to add to the play's veracity. Mr. Stromberg expires after exhorting his minions to "treat her square, treat her square...
...supporting cast includes a boy who is fat without being funny and a shrilly unbearable girl-friend of the heroine. Playwrights Ashley Miller and Hyman Adler have introduced two theme songs, "Go's Tweet Patootie is Oo?" and "Let's Get What's To Be Gotten...
...cigaret girl had just given her first yawn. The blonde from Showboat was explaining for the third time why her girl-friend could not come. The lawyer from an Ohio town was about to order more White Rock water "or sumpthing" The Butte, Mont., mining man was laughing at the song, which he had never heard before, of a girl named Anna, from Butte, Montana. It was, in other words, 1 o'clock in the morning and in Manhattan's livelier night clubs the evening was just beginning to bubble. In the streets outside, crowds at corner cigar...