Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Dr. Henry W. Frauenthal, 63, founder of the Hospital for Joint Diseases (largest orthopedic hospital in the world); having fallen from a seventh floor window; in Manhattan. In 1911 he successfully grafted the tibia bone from a dead man's leg into a girl's leg. In 1912, he saw the Titanic sink...
...hence, it costs Henry Ford about $300,000 a year to publish it. It gives bits of information and advances the ideas of Mr. Ford. For example, the current issue contains such articles as: "A Preacher tells the Inside Story of Sinclair Lewis and his Preacher Book," "The Gibson Girl and Other Symbols of Yesterday" by Vachel Lindsay, "The True Story of Mary's Little Lamb," "Japan Looks to America to Prevent Wars," "Every Person Has at Least One Book in Him," and the usual "Mr. Ford's Page...
After hours of preliminary tableaux, solo singing, orchestral music, ballet, the cathedral gave over to Gloria Swanson-on-screen who endured through an interminable legend in which a girl, knowing not whether to devote herself to a career as opera singer, to her lover or to a wealthy villain, discovers (in a crystal) the horrible effect of conducting herself for the sake of the career or the loveless wifehood, and thereupon marries the lover. The effect of the lover is not picturized because (according to the faith expounded ardently and ex cathedra by the subtitles) happiness is inevitable when...
Thou Desperate Pilot. Zoe Akins, who loves the refined minority and wrote Declasse, offered this as first of a forthcoming series of plays. The title is derived from Romeo's line on suicide by poison.* Through the intricate entanglements of silken society, Zelda Beale (Miriam Hopkins), U. S. girl, is inveigled into accepting Louis Brant (Charles Henderson), although drawn by love to Lord Eric Hamilton (David Hawthorne). When Brant has broken under the last cocktail, she is free to marry Lord Hamilton, who proves himself very English by rigidly rejecting all conciliatory overtures. So Zelda jumps off the roof...
...expects government aid. This is done, but the president cannot throttle Madeline (Josephine Hutchinson), granddaughter of the founder, who insists that conscientious objectors ought not to be gaoled and that she has a right to say so, on Morton Hill especially. Deserted by her influential relatives, the girl is forced to choose between indictment on an espionage charge and retraction. She does the noble thing, suffers the fate of every good citizen who lifts eyes higher than the mob. It becomes increasingly clear that, in Josephine Hutchinson, Miss Le Gallienne has found a young actress of bright talent...