Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...James's to be able to "guess." I can assure you that the well known intimacy of the Duchess of York and the Prince of Wales is "guessed" to have found fulsome expression in Charleston lessons. May I add that all who knew the Duchess as a girl knew someone very different from the woman she has become...
...affirmative sister is funnier than the negative one: and she is also less musically inclined. Both girls are equally lacking in any brains if the plot of a play corresponds to a girl's mental equipment...
Matinee Ladies (May McAvoy, Malcolm McGregor). Cradle-snatchers again. A young man, nowadays, seems to pay as inevitably as the harassed heroines of a decade ago. At a roadhouse, the hero, law-student, jigs with women too old to trade in their own personality. But he loves the cigaret girl. The villain lures her to a boathouse, where, once in his fell clutches, who can say what fearsome fate is in store? Just when the audience might, if it cared, drop out of its seats because of the horrible suspense, the hero romps along with his right uppercut in good...
...sound of splitting wood and the dejected back of the vicar plodding homeward remind the Oldest Member of young Chester Meredith, ah yes, poor chap. . . . and so he relates how Chester came within a chip shot of not crashing the course record, simply through a misunderstanding with his best girl about soul-satisfying, putt-producing profanity. Rollo Podmarsh is the subject of another reminiscence. Rollo was too good to be happy or play golf or make love or anything, until his small cousin put rum in his arrowroot tea. But then- And Ferdinand Dibble-there was a case...
...Censorship? I am absolutely against all forms of censorship. I don't believe plays or books can hurt an adult though I do think a play like "The Captive" might prove injurious to a young girl. I would not take a daughter of mine to it but if another man wants to take his, it is no affair of mine. Some plays are undeniably bad from all points of view, but if people are silly enough to go to see them, let them...