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Word: girls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last name caused reporters to query anxiously, scribble hastily. "Not the Grace Moore who sang in Irving Berlin's Music Box Revue, in Hitchy-Koo, in Up in the Clouds?" It was that same pretty girl, native of Jellicoe, Tenn., one-time music student at the Wilson-Green School at Chevy Chase. She had fled classroom and the First Baptist choir for the snapping footlights of Manhattan. George M. Cohan, alert actor-producer-play-wright, gave her audience & advice. The advice was to go into musical comedy. There, a Southern drawl, an arch manner and a pure voice carried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Gatti Announces | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

Married. Cyril Francis Maude, 65, famed English actor (retired 1926), widower (1924); to Mrs. Harry Trew, widow (1926) of the onetime Master of the Brexhill Harriers. Best man was Sir Robert Baden-Powell, founder of England's Boy Scout & Girl Guide movements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 24, 1927 | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

...play is based on the eminently successful novel of the same name by Du Bose Heyward (white). Its central figure is a crippled boy. The theme: his love for a girl intermittently addicted to dope. The third figure of the triangle is a towering black murderer who is choked to death by the cripple's steely fingers in the final...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 24, 1927 | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

...steady gain,-a detail of some interest even in Shakespearian circles,-the audiences have been liberal with intelligent and audible approval, and the paying guests are nothing if not heterogeneous. Stiff shirts are more to be seen a social events such as the gold digging activities of a blond girl, and an air of student poverty permeates the atmosphere. From all appearances Shakespeare seems still to be a good seller, and for Mr. Leiber's sake it is to be hoped that the indications do not believe the facts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HELD-OVER | 10/21/1927 | See Source »

...journal as its opponent. With no mountains on which to practice for training, without even a New Hampshire hill, the CRIMSON, intends to defend its athletic honor. Its locate has been termed effects. The Hanover press representatives undoubtedly are superior in the arts of the boy scout and campfire girl. Nevertheless even the urbanite is not bereft of all native cunning. The CRIMSON makes no promises and, toward off possible future recriminations, it has no regrets. But in the chill October twilight, then, and then only, may the woodsman, fortified with a compass and flint for igniting fires, flaunt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUSTN'T TOUCH | 10/21/1927 | See Source »

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