Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...girls are added to the plot. The first, a harlot who rejected Hassan, came to him with power and fled when he fell, is an easy part that almost any pretty actress could portray. Accordingly the producers gave it to their most expensive player, Mary Nash. She did what she could with it. The other girl, for whom the King of the Beggars wove his plot, was entrusted wisely to Violet Kemble Cooper, who made it easily the most important role of the play. Randal Ayrton, from London, played Hassan, conventionally, correctly, completely missing the weakness, the beauty, the humanity...
...widow of a saloon keeper, kept selling liquor even after 1919 to give her daughter the "advantages." Among the advantages in her Park Avenue existence the daughter found cocktails and a fortune hunter. When the latter began shooting at the police in the mother's downtown cabaret, the girl recalled the tableau long ago when her father was murdered in the old saloon. She recognized her mother and returned to her childhood sweetheart who had courted her from the top of a brewery wagon long ago. As routine picture entertainment, the film is a fair sample. In performance, Ricardo...
Vida D. Scudder, Professor of English at Wellesley College these 14 years, briefly suggested the content of "The College Girl's Mind," by publishing some of the questions which students of hers, in a sociologico-literary course, asked before the course opened. As a teacher of some experience, Miss Scudder doubtless realized that many such questions are put with feigned seriousness and interest by students either in desperation or in an effort to impress their mark-giver. Still, Miss Scudder felt that there was something significant in the fact that "heads black, brown, yellow, straight and curly, bobbed...
...burnt that house to white fine ashes, such as fell out of her corncob pipe when she prayed. There is Killdee who ploughed on Green Thursday?Ascension Day?the day Jesus went back to God, wherefore he expected to be scourged, and was, for that night his little girl, Baby Rose, was burnt to death in the cookfire. After that Killdee hated God. Vengeance was all right, but it didn't seem square to burn a baby...
Married. Paul Codman Cabot, 25, of Boston, to Miss Virginia Converse. In the wedding party were four other Cabots, one Lowell. Married. William Sydney Felton, 30, Boston lawyer, to Tosia Szcy-choviez, "beautiful Polish girl and shoe factory worker"; in Salem, Mass. Joseph Szcychoviez, "grizzled father of the bride," was alleged to have said to newspapermen: "I go to see such a wedding? I, of princely blood in Poland, turn up there to be patronized by the newly rich and betray my blood and breeding? Never!" He disapproved, "does not care for Mr. Felton." Married. Sir Basil Zaharoff...