Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when Timothy was planning his "major" novels and was always there when he sat, scornfully dignified, at visiting shows. Gradually it was erased by employers, women and the flopping of Timothy's first play. When the last line disappeared and Timothy became a humble cub reporter, his best best-girl was glad. The doings of the local Hyacinth Club contribute juicy bits of satire on small-town "artiness", but for the most part it appears that the indulgent Messrs. Scribner have given light to an unimpressive autobiography...
...present play was born between the pages of Beggars of Life, a hobo biography by Jim Tully. Mr. Anderson borrowed the characteristics of Mr. Tully's dusty nomads and one of his incidents to make a narrative. It is the story of a child of bitter misfortune, a girl seduced by her stepfather and driven by circumstances into a disorderly house. When she had earned a snatch of leisure and money for the trip, she paid a visit to the family, leaving the house unceremoniously, and its owner shattered with lead pistol-slugs...
...play opens on a barren near a railroad grade. Into the assembly of tramps awaiting the evening freight come the girl and a stubby red-headed youth, who has elected to assist her flight from justice. Two savage tramps fall in love with her; detectives pick up the trail and the second act is played in a box car of the westering freight. The stubby redhead protects her from the tramps, finally winning their admiration, and their aid in a getaway across the Border...
...wish to decide for yourself without waste of time, she played Lola Pratt in Seventeen, and the daughter of the curiosity shop in Tweedles (TIME, Aug. 20, 1923); was a year on tour in The First Year with her husband, Gregory Kelly; and last season was the incredibly dumb girl friend of the family in Mrs. Partridge Presents (TIME...
...first act of the current season-achieves this, but in the second the plot lifts its girlie-girlie face, and ghosts of the unsung ballads interrupt the accomplished small-town gabbing of Maidel Turner, and the adept gaucheries of Drug Clerk Kenneth Dana. Mildred Mac-Leod, as a dreamy girl troubled by an explosion of cloudy and fervent aspiration, plays her part with a pretty precision...