Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wasn't so fancy in New Haven two or three years ago when his name was Curt Peters) is fully as good as that satirical fellow could do himself, and the halitosis ad is what is popularly known as lifelike. How many in the class can give this little girl an identifying hand...
...hard to see why the saintliness of Thérèse is a saintliness of present day appeal. There is a harbor of peace in her isolation from the loud materialism that generalizers condemn in the contemporary chaos, and it pleases an age of youth to worship a girl who died when she was 24. People still come crowding to be healed* at the doors of the convent at Lisieux, where now the Saint's sister is Mother Superior...
...TRIAL OF MARY DUGAN-A chorus girl jumps out of the frying pan into the witness chair (TIME...
...agitated little Mr. Lee-Mittison, pathetically chipper when he has organized a picnic, but dashed to nervous gloom when it disintegrates to eggshells and a mackintoshed wife. There is the inevitable pair of spinsters, who paint wretched watercolors, and quarrel over Hedonism. There are plenty of charming young girls, and no eligible young men. Finally there is Sydney Warren, a lovely girl of 22, sophisticated, neurotic, who provides the hotel with faintly perverted gossip because of her infatuation for a charming widow, Mrs. Kerr. Sydney tries to escape the pity of ever-present hotel guests by affiancing herself...
Pola Negri's glittering photodrama "Three Sinners" is one of those pictures which thrill backwoods audiences and cause girls with limited wardrobes to leave home for Hollywood. The features of the hectic and soul-stirring tragedy are Pola's bare back and-her silver wig. She handles both capably, so capably in fact that Dresden, Vienna, and Paris combined have nothing in the way of feminity to rival her. She portrays dramatically--a la bare back and silver wig--a woman whose ruined life was brought about through her husband's indifference. A railroad wreck, gambling dens in full blast...