Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good painting?'' does not occur until they have asked, "Is it genuine?" Last week such connoisseurs took note, with panic or delight, of a controversy which concerned a painting called The Guitar Player, executed long ago by famed Jan Vermeer der Delft; a painting of a young girl seated in a diffused golden light, her fingers quiet upon silent strings. One Guitar Player was bought in London in 1896 by John G. Johnson and has reposed, since his death, with the rest of his collection in his Philadelphia house. Last week, British connoisseurs who viewed the collection of Lord Iveagh...
...Fortune Hunter. Funnyman Syd Chaplin is never nearly so funny as his famed brother. What with his wide grin and his rapid trotting motion, he seldom cuts a solemn figure on the screen. Herein, first trying to marry a rich beautiful girl for money he is aided by the grace, charm and beauty of Helene Costello (sister to the famed Dolores). Later, trying to marry a poor, blonde girl for love, he is obstructed by Clara Horton, a horrible ingenue...
...Gateway of the Moon. A little half-caste girl in the brackish underbrush of Bolivia falls in love with a British engineer, name of Arthur Wyatt. Far from shy, she immediately and as constantly as possible enwraps his torso with her physical charms. Finally, he is content to stay enwrapped...
...been published almost simultaneously, there would have been an enormous hoot about plagiarism. These are the likenesses: both books are about mixed twins of dangerous heredity, who keep company with fashionable, questionable artists, who feel for each other a more than normally intense devotion; in both books the girl twin's marriage threatens this devotion, produces, in the Kennedy case, a murder, in the Simpson case, a suicide, by the boy twin; in both books there is a character called Tony. The differences, mainly differences in treatment, are more important and less conspicuous. Author Simpson nearly cracks a harder...
...TRIAL OF MARY DUGAN?In which a beautiful chorus girl tensely, tearfully tells the story of her life. (TIME...