Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Born in St. Paul, he attended Princeton, served in the Army, wrote his first novel in a training camp, achieved fame and fortune, married a Southern girl, has a child and lives in Great Neck, L. I. At heart, he is one of the kindliest of the younger writers. Artistry means a great deal to F. Scott Fitzgerald?and into his own best work he pours a real torrent of artistic endeavor. This he demands in the work of others, and when he does not find it he criticizes with passionate earnestness. I have known him, after reading a young...
...Extra Girl. While State after State was going anti-Normand to impress chauffeurs that the season on millionaires was definitely closed, New York (probably fearing the vote of the nine million taxi-drivers in the widely known metropolis) stayed silent. Accordingly Mabel Normand opened in The Extra Girl. It turned out to be a feminine edition of Merton and guaranteed harmless. The scandal-starved hundreds can gaze, gape and grin at Miss Normand to their hearts' content and bring their children. For those who align themselves with this department in Considering screen Mabel an exceptionally comic personality, the picture...
...LADY?Melodramatic reunion of the virtuous chorus girl, the worthless husband, the luckless infant, the irate grandfather?well played and still luxuriously emotional...
...wily plans for the acquisition of the secret of the weaving of silk; of Roxana, spirited young Queen of Balkh, and her love for the Prince Imperial of China, come disguised and almost alone into her land; of Jan's own love for Mosul-la, the slave girl. He tells of trial and treachery, of nights of passion, blood, flight. A book for the tired Mah Jongger...
...Telegram (Manhattan) vaporized as follows: "He has insisted on doing work that required no thinking. Poor kid! His boyhood was burned up in thinking. That is all he has ever done, and now he wants a rest." The Sun and The Globe dug up a story about a girl: "As he talks to associates in radical circles Sidis sometimes takes Miss Foley's picture from his pocket and looks at it-and then he smiles...