Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...front pages. It was no new theft. They did the same thing when Marion Talley made her debut two seasons ago at the Metropolitan, and presently the telegrapher's daughter from Kansas City was making hundreds of thousands of dollars. They did it for. Mary Lewis, the runaway girl from Little Rock, Ark., who slipped overnight from the ranks of a Ziegfeld chorus to the bosom of grand opera. They repeated it again last week for Grace Moore, onetime musical comedy star, of Hitchy-Koo, Up in the Clouds, of Irving Berlin's Music Box Revue...
...city desk has used the same formula for all three stories: There was the simple little girl who just stepped out on to that great stage and sang her way into the hearts of her audience. There was a special delegation of home folks (in Grace Moore's case it was from Jellico, Tennessee-a father, a mother, a sister, three brothers, U. S. Senators Tyson and McKellar, Representatives Hull and Garrett, and 100 friends). There were also photographs with flowers and Chairman Otto H. Kahn of the Metropolitan Board of Directors...
...Manhattan under William Chase, who, as she calmly observes, would immediately perish of bewilderment should he, by an accident, walk .into the room where her paintings are on view. She was teaching drawing to young people in Texas, when she sent two of her charcoal drawings to a girl in New York. The girl took them to Stiegiitz, whose gallery was then full of Matisse and Picasso, whose senseless innovations caused academicians to expire from apoplexy...
South Sea Love. Thus the plot begins: a young girl, ambitious for a career, says good-by to her best beloved. He will go to the South Seas, find some pearls, sell them and use the money to launch her as an actress. Soon after the departure of her inamorata, the lady herself makes big money in musical comedy. In part, she owes her success to an intent but unscrupulous young man-about-town who has stolen the money to pay for her theatrical ventures. Infuriated when she refuses to marry him, this suitor goes to the South Seas...
...novel (TIME, Jan. 24, 1927), wherein a girl who was reared to be snoopy about sex becomes a cosmopolitan esthete. The soon forgotten fame of The Hard-Boiled Virgin rested on such smart remarks as: "In Georgia, no lady was supposed to know she was a virgin until she ceased...