Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alderman Ferrier eventually opined, "Steerforth brought disgrace upon little Em'ly, a Yarmouth girl. Although he himself came to a tragic end, it is not advisable to perpetuate his name unduly." The Council agreed; banished "Steerforth Avenue" from its deliberations...
...nearly fell asleep along with us but his recoveries out of a sound sleep were nothing short of marvelous. May Ediss was well cast as the mother of the wronged young man and soothed the audience with her well-bred voice. She was in great contrast to the girl's mother, played by Elspeth Dudgeon. Miss Dudgeon was the only person on the stage who was supposed to refuse to believe in telepathy, and she should have made the most of it. But any actress who germanizes her t's and g's is not elegible for our all-star...
Said Mary Lewis: "I don't think I have ever seen a story about myself without 'Ex-Follies Girl' in the headline. . . . The real value of my churchly upbringing still endures. . . . It is wonderful to wake up in the morning and know that I'm not going to be spanked...
...poster is shaded and filled, not teased, into a powerful fresco on the walls of Manhattan and of life. Karl sees Greta again in her daughter. The girl has found her lover, just such a penniless composer as Karl once was. But the older man is prestige, comfort, immediacy and she accepts him. Frau Zwenge applauds, on that practical side as before. The old grandfather is glad, having loved Karl. George Gewurtz is for it, seeking to force an issue he has long suspected: the truth about Karoline's paternity...
...Daily Mirror "crusaded" against him, asking, "Why is a rich lunatic a free lunatic?" Some of the Mirror's chicle-masticating readers may have thought it a breach of taste, a blatancy, to make so much of the fact that an old rake wanted to chuck a dancing girl under the chin. Little did these readers know the courage that went into the writing of that crusade...