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Word: girls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...natural result is that he slays them all in disgust. Follows a great lark of a trial, wherein a jury of critics decides his fate according to the worth of his symphony and pantomime. Escaping from the dream with a whole skin, the composer wins the sensible girl across the hall and plans to live in a cottage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Feb. 25, 1924 | 2/25/1924 | See Source »

TARNISH?The immaculate girl and the infamous woman?both loved by the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: Feb. 18, 1924 | 2/18/1924 | See Source »

Myrtie is an addition to the sob drama. Author Goodhue seeks to arouse your pity for a bad girl, bent on going wrong for the sake of the silk stockings she'll get. Then she meets a priest, falls in love with him, tries to go straight, to win his smiles and maybe his kisses. When he repulses her advances, bang goes another convert! After a year with another man, again the wages of sin are a baby. The play groans under a load of sentiment. The characterization is conventional, enlivened by small-boy efforts to say something risqu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Feb. 18, 1924 | 2/18/1924 | See Source »

...shopgirl out for a blow, who seems to be derived from O. Henry, is worshipped by a jazz-drummer with a soul above percussion. Naturally, like any stage shopgirl, she falls prey to a wily villain with a wife. When the wife and a cop turn on the girl in a gaudy den of pleasure, she jumps out of a, window as the best way to avoid an explanation. Unfortunately, a tree outside breaks her fall. She lives. The play doesn't. It is a violent melodrama, a case of theatrical hiccoughs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Feb. 18, 1924 | 2/18/1924 | See Source »

...NERVOUS WRECK?East in the person of an anemic hypochondriac meets West in the persons of sheriffs, guns and a girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: Feb. 18, 1924 | 2/18/1924 | See Source »

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