Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Memory Lane. This sounds pretty dull and indeed is. It is a story of sacrifice. A small-town husband is contented to allow his wife to run away with a city chap simply because" he knows she will be happy. Eleanor Boardman is the girl...
...attempted to keep them back, burst through the police guard, knocked Bert Lytell, one of the cinema-star pallbearers, against a wheel of the hearse, sent the other pallbearers fleeing for safety. This stampede apparently resulted from the desire of numerous women to touch the silver casket of "the girl who was too beautiful to live." Five women fainted, were carried into the funeral parlors to be revived. Men and boys screeched and shouted from treetops, sign boards, roofs...
...DYBBUK - A Jewish legend of religion and a young girl's love treated to the most amazingly fine production. Probably the best thing in town...
...Great Gatsby. Owen Davis has taken the most recent and probably the best novel of the facile F. Scott Fitzgerald and made it into a play of considerable amusement and some excellence. The hero, who met the girl in a training camp and tried after the War to make himself a gentleman in an erratically momentous manner, is well played by James Rennie. In case you have not read the novel, Mr. Rennie impersonates a Long Island resident of no background, much money and a dubious method of getting it. Considerably in his way is the girl's husband, whose...
...Heming have been summoned by Mr. Hopkins for the new performance. It is said by comparatively minded commentators that Mr. Sydney is perhaps not so perfect in the role as John Barrymore. Ethier, say these same, is as good as Mr. Lionel. Violet Heming is considerably better than the girl six years ago (her name escapes). But comparisons, as has been said, are odious. The present Jest is far too fine to admit of them. It easily ranks among the scattered few you must not miss...