Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unable to prevent the Maharaja's emissaries from murdering the merchant Bawla in cold blood on the open highway while he was riding with Mumtaz Begum; but the golfers did succeed in driving off the natives (armed with revolvers, knives and swords) before they could do more to the girl than slash her face, permanently disfiguring...
...likewise introduced an extravagant offshoot of the Boy Scouts into Siam and assisted Queen Lakshmi in the creation of Siamese Girl Guides and the Royal Wild Tiger Corps. Since Rama's father, King Chulalongkorn, had left behind him 600 widows, 134 sons and 236 daughters, it was considered highly scandalous that Rama IV had no sons...
...England town comes a childlike French Canadian and promptly mistakes the heroine of the play (Phyllis Povah) for the Mother of Christ. A partly crazed preacher furnishes the religious frenzy, and the last act is chiefly valuable for a scene in which the French Canadian realizes the girl is not God and destroys most of her clothing. Miss Povah is one of the dependable actresses whose presence on the stage prevents any play from being wholly uninteresting. Which, it may be added, The Virgin...
...Puccini music (although it is said $150,000 was offered), a complete special score was obtained which approximated the classic melodies. Everything then was done to make the picture memorable. It turned out a trifle-tiresome. The story was at fault. For picture purposes the little consumptive girl and the shabby but sincere gayeties of the Paris Latin Quarter seemed insufficient. La Boheme is a much better picture than most, but it does not measure up to its great promises...
...Girl from Montmartre. Barbara La Marr's last picture is being shown almost before the mourners are back from her funeral (TIME, Feb. 25, MILESTONES). Besides being an example of the wretched taste of the movies in general, the picture, about the usual Paris dancer, is uninteresting...