Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This daughter is Ailsa, now aged 25. She was a small girl when her father found it necessary to divorce her young and beautiful Irish mother (Nora McMullen) in 1910-12. The parents' parting was effected with becoming dignity, and it was arranged that Ailsa and her younger brother Paul were to divide their time equally between father and mother. This they did, at first, but as she grew up, the affection lavished upon Ailsa by her father drew her most closely to him. After schooling at home and abroad and making her debut in Pittsburgh, she became...
...unimportant musical comedy with a shattering succession of excellent dance numbers. It has been made over from an old farce which once amused for an inconsiderable period as Little Miss Brown. About half of the original was eliminated to make room for song and dance about a girl who strayed into the wrong hotel bedroom. The music and the foolishness are mostly routine. Dorothy Dilley and a vaudeville team called Wayne and Warren are the most capable performers...
Miss Mackaill is a delightfully queer and intriguingly dear person (I can't forget those subtitles) and one just knows she has it. But the direction decided to make an intimate story more intimate by confining it to a series of close ups. And no girl, as the hook nose of the Armenian who admitted he was an Armenian and was therefore probably an Armenian since no one would call himself an Armenian if it weren't once suggested, can really be attractive beneath a microscope. Though she can dance, very well or more or less, as The Honorable Peter...
...What composer gave his last glorious melody to a slave girl...
...very great lady indeed. She divorced the late William K. Vanderbilt for his pleasures; she remarried; she gave money to help the poor. For many years her clear-hewn, masculine face, wearing, under a shock of cropped hair, few traces of the beauty that made her famous as a girl, has stared down charity committees; her voice, one of those feminine baritones that the years bring to great ladies who express themselves emphatically, has harangued women in clubs and men. Soon Mrs. Belmont is sailing for England. Her grandson, the Marquis of Blanford, has asked her to be godmother...