Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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COQUETTE-Tears and troubles for Helen Hayes, playing the part of a pretty little girl in a down-South town (TIME...
...become famous as the "buttock and leg show," danced with frantic eagerness to see what Ziggy* had done. They discovered over the door the legend which, however inaccurate or uncomplimentary it may have seemed, described its author's business in terms that have been remembered. "Glorifying the American Girl" was the legend...
...turned over to a gypsy band for proper punishment: a facial mutilation which leaves him with a perpetual and ghastly grin. In a travelling circus, Gwynplaine finds employment as a clown; he winces and tears muddy his eyes when thousands crowd around him and go into hysterical laughter. One girl, Dea (Mary Philbin), loves him and does not laugh at him; she is blind. Another old girl, Duchess Josiana, lusts for him because of his strange disfiguration. Queen Anne hates the duchess and tries to humiliate her by restoring Gwynplaine to his place in the peerage. There follows a superb...
...Katherine Osborn will give an address entitled "The Problems of the Modern Girl," and Mrs. William K. Provine, soprano, will render several selections at the meeting of the Society of Harvard Dames to be held this afternoon at 3 o'clock in the Phillips Brooks House...
Very briefly the story of "Hassan" is that of the quarrel over a girl waged between Rafli, King of the Beggars, and the Caliph of Bagdad. But through it all runs the strange, sweeping play of Hassan, the Confectioner. In a rare illusive manner Flecker has told the fable of this unhappy man, himself in love. Gorgeous colors distract the eye, enchanting verse lays its spell upon the ear; it is a spectacle, but a strange rich legend that rises to something more than mere pageantry...