Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said Hero Elmer G. Costich, bronze medalist of Rochester, N. Y.: "I got my prize three months ago." He had married the girl he rescued from drowning...
...Paramount). Frankly extravagant, Sweetie is a football romance staged at a musical comedy college where the students are well-known film players doing entertainment specialties. William Austin is the sissified professor. Helen Kane carries an air-rifle and sings her "poop-a-doop" songs. Nancy Carroll is the pretty girl who inherits a boys' college and bets her claim to it that her team can beat Oglethorpe. Jack Oakie, Broadway showman, changes the hymnlike school song to a ditty called "Alma Mammy." There is also a red-headed fellow who says that a preposition is something you ask a girl...
...Isle of Lost Ships (First National). This is the dialog adaptation of a six-year-old picture built around the legend that there is an island in the Sargasso Sea composed of wrecked hulls. Action gets going around three survivors of the latest wreck?a girl, a man convicted of murder, a comedy detective. Occasionally effective camera work fails to make up for stolid sequences of dialog explaining the locale, or for the pathetic struggle between the hero and the scav- engers who live on the lost ships. Silliest shot: the super-scavenger being ceremoniously married to the unconscious body...
...married women have of working outside their homes. ... In the United States the viewpoint seems to be: 'I'll go out and earn some money if my husband and I cannot afford to employ a cook without my adding to our income with my earnings.' In Great Britain the girl whose husband is only moderately well off would say: I shall go and have a few cooking lessons so that we need not employ a cook...
Lancaster--"The Dance of Life" and "The Girl from Havana...