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...Continued from p. 40) Bigger and Better Than Ever in his anniversary Scandals. The tune is piffle; the sentiment is mere braggadocio. But he should again succeed, for he still knows how to polish the fleshpots. Once his girlish regiment sprawls on a beach, clad for maximum suntan. When costumes are more voluminous, engaging apertures are cut in them. Entrancing is a lady who stands vastly denuded, symbolic of the American Indian, and looks remarkably like Helen Wills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 7, 1929 | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

...hockey player whom she thought she loved is not so ardent as he seemed. James Stevens (Minor Watson), the tweedy young family lawyer, meets the issue by claiming to be the prospective father. He has loved Joyce all along and now proposes marriage. She blissfully agrees, and has the girlish pleasure of telling him that she is still virgin. In the meantime a huge, philosophic iceman has similarly forgiven the errant housemaid and taken her to a priest. What he refers to as the "escopode" is thus nobly closed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Aug. 19, 1929 | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

...Hugh Beckett Greene, 19, fair, chinless, has a boyish shape (shoulders larger than hips) but wants to have the girlish reverse. Her wedding-day confession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sextette | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

Seemingly petite and girlish Señora Sandino (see cut) was kept constantly under surveillance by "Lieut. Brownlee." Not a tick of her telegraph instrument, not a whisper in her office, not a letter in her mail escaped "Big Feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NICARAGUA: Lieut. Big Feet | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...Wallace's sprig of grue was sufficiently funny, novel and grisly to provoke the intended reactions among Manhattan susceptibles. In it, moreover, Nina Gore, daughter of blind onetime (1907-12) U. S. Senator from Oklahoma Thomas Pryor Gore, made a one-line stage debut; Flora Sheffield exhibited a girlish physique as the heroine and Campbell Gullan, with a tykish burr, played the newspaper sleuth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 24, 1928 | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

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