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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hard winter. Her voice is of that tricky, gymnastic variety which permits its owner to do all sorts of stunts to the great astonishment of the audience, but never enables her to carry clear through a song with any beauty of performance or depth of feeling. A girl must be a triple threat to achieve greatness in a musical comedy, and Miss Parisette can scarcely dance, sings fairly but not remarkably, and is no sort of an actress...

Author: By R. K. L., | Title: CINEMA CRIMSON PLAY GOER DRAMA | 11/10/1926 | See Source »

...Trained Girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Prisoner | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

Denied Divorce. Christian Arthur Wellesley, fourth Earl of Cowley, actor, descendant of Richard Colley Marquess Wellesley (famed Governor General of India, 1797-1805; Duke of Wellington's brother); from the Countess, onetime May Picard, Manhattan chorus girl; at London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 8, 1926 | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

...life, thinks Dr. Haddo, sinister magician-hypnotist. Margaret Dauncey (Alice Terry) is elected as the source of supply for the experiment. While breaking the bank at Monte Carlo, under the hypnotic direction of the doctor, she meets sympathetic Dr. Burdon who understands how hard it is for a girl to do as she wishes under these conditions. Somerset Maugham conceived the tale. Rex Ingram directed the film, tried hard to make the gruesome fantasy appear real, succeeded partiallv...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Nov. 8, 1926 | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

London (Dorothy Gish). According to this picture, from Thomas Burke's Limehouse saga, all a girl needs is the right environment. Plump Dorothy Gish is on the verge of being sold to a Chinaman for three pounds sterling- dirt cheap at the price, too. Fleeing the yellow peril, Dorothy faints in front of a high class a la carte restaurant, is adopted by a sympathetic, wealthy family, marries a good-looking artist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Nov. 8, 1926 | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

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