Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...answered in your usual admirable manner. It recalls to my mind a little incident of my girlhood, 50 years ago. A miss of 12 or 13, I was having breakfast in the house of a friend of my own age. During the course of the meal, the other girl sitting at her father's right hand, and probably pondering a Sunday-School lesson, asked quietly: "Papa, what is a concubine...
...tent and put him to sleep on the top of a bramble bush. . . ." Said a whiskered merry-andrew, "It was you and me that tied the bag around Johnny Tenner .... He was a great kid and he sure could beat that drum. . . . I met his girl a while back. She's married to a grocery agent now . . . funny, she should marry a drummer, huh?" The fireman's band played the tune of a bugle-call, "Soupy, soupy, soupy, without a single bean. . . ." Someone was saying: ". . . And we began to think the hard tack was turkey...
Hula (Clara Bow). In this film, Paramount proudly advertises its vivacious actress as the "IT" girl. Never was actress in more desperate need of that celebrated quality. She must portray an Irish-born girl, "gone native" in Hawaii despite the fact that her father, a wealthy planter, entertains at his uproarious carousals the smartest Hawaiian society. Among the constant company is a slim siren of sophisticated manner. This only makes it harder for primitive Hula to capture the cold Englishman engineer who shaves every day, even in the jungle. To add to her difficulties, the thin-lipped Nordic already...
Engaged. Richard Barthelmess, cinemactor (Broken Blossoms, Way Down East and more recently The Patent Leather Kid), to Katherine Wilson, actress, recently seen in Manhattan in An American Tragedy. (She played the factory girl.) He, educated at Trinity College, a member of Psi Upsilon fraternity, was this year divorced by Actress Mary Hay, whom he married...
...PINAFOUR- Gilbert & Sullivan In the shriveled, feeble, almost blind person of Mrs. Carrie King, now cubby-holed in a dingy Man- hattan hotel, it would be hard to recognize the sprightly, buxom girl who was one of the early Buttercups in Gilbert & Sullivan history. That was in the '70s, when she was equipped with a cheery smile and a rare mezzo-soprano voice...