Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sheik (Rudolph Valentino). Dear old Rudolph Valentino, the fire eater with editorial writers, is home again. He is heart deep in Sahara sands in a picture obviously and not expertly echoing his famed success in The Sheik. He plays a young desert gentleman enamored of a dancing girl traveling with a cut-throat band. He is attacked, imprisoned, released, chased, and close-uped. The girl turns out brave and pure. There is the usual sand storm. It is a terrible picture, concentrating on a handsome actor of some ability. It will be atrociously popular...
...Eugene O'Neill's confusing problem about selling your brains to the devil. CRAIG'S WIFE - About a woman who dusted her house so carefully that it ceased to be a home. LULU BELLE - Lenore Ulric painting a brilliantly tawdry picture of a Negro dance hall girl. LESS SERIOUS CRADLE SNATCHERS - In which three lonely ladies, aged about 40, find diversion in three young men from college. WHAT EVERY WOMAN KNOWS - J. M. Barrie and Helen Hayes collaborating in a most satisfactory revival. AT MRS. BEAM'S - The terrible predicament of a boarding house which harbors...
...less a lion than Roach Straton himself. True, Roach Straton had trained this supple shoot (Hillyer Hawthorne Straton) with his own unswerving hand; had taught him righteousness with his own fierce tongue-the hand and tongue that have repeatedly been brandished to denounce modern young womanhood ("The high society girl is the lowest thing on earth!"); that have scoured Berlin, Paris and London for loathsome pictures of vice to buttress the faith of Americanos ("I saw there what I never saw here-girls actually taking out their lipsticks in public. They used so much paint on their lips that they...
...Darlington, S. C., a Negro died, and was laid out, for the admiration of his friends, with a powdered countenance, among banked flowers. Seven little pickaninnies, graded like a flight of steps, from Nathan Ellison, a toddler of 18 months, to the big seven-year-old girl from next door, stood in a line on the pavement to watch the black box carried out of the house, and stared round-eyed until the last carriage had turned the corner. Then, the next-to-largest black boy gave a tremendous leap from the curb into the gutter...
...Married. Mrs. Marion Cleveland Dell, daughter of President Grover Cleveland and the now Mrs. Thomas J. Preston Jr. to John Harlan Amen, Manhattan lawyer, son of the late Principal of Phillips Exeter Academy; at Tamworth, N. H. Divorced. Fawn Gray, famed a year ago as the night club dancing girl who so alluringly interested senile Harry K. Thaw for many an evening; from one Theodore MacFarland, her groom after a two-day party; at Baltimore. Died. Felix E. Dzerzhinsky, 49, "The Black Pope of Bolshevism." (See RUSSIA, p. 10.) Died. Franklin S. Terry, 64, early (1889) maker of incandescent electric...