Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Those stinking Socialists are worried because they can't find their Matteotti. He probably ran away with some girl...
...Girl Friend. The movement for smaller and smarter musical comedies which various producers have contemplated since Sunny eliminated competition in the more spacious field, has at last unearthed a good one. The Girl Friend is not guaranteed unconditionally, but it offers a consistently agreeable display. It has good music and unquestionably the best lyrics in town. It has a sound enough set of jokes and more than the usual allotment of brisk dancing. Eva Puck and Sam White, vaudeville favorites, are the featured entertainers. They too, if not supreme, are soundly satisfactory. They tell the story of a chicken-rancher...
Hush Money. Justine Johnstone, once a glorified girl of Mr. Ziegfeld's, returns as an actress. It may be stated without reserve that Miss Johnstone is the most beautiful blond leading woman in the land. She is not the best actress, but she is easily good enough for this inconspicuous little crook play. Miss Johnstone plays the fiancee of a young man with a prison record. Practically the entire remainder of the cast is bent upon hurling him back to the gaol. A diamond necklace is stolen and things look pretty sour for him. But he picks the very necklace...
...Peck, Mr. Norman Cannon, of austere and hawk-like countenance, is well cast (except that he doesn't look like the football player he is supposed to be) and he grows more and more likable as the play goes on. But even there if we'd been the girl, we'd never have fallen in love with him, or filled his pipe for him, either...
...think that the Charleston will continue? I do but with some changes. It has already existed for years; for, when I was but a little girl, the Sailors' Hornpipe was being danced. The modern Charleston is only a version of the hornpipe...