Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile Helen has become Walden's most distinguished pupil. A smooth-haired, frank-faced girl, she likes "any outdoor sport and taking care of babies." She enjoys "most any type book, particularly college stories." She also says: "I would like to be a high school teacher when I have completed high school and college...
...club Hostess Guinan continued to greet her friends with "Hello, Johnny" and her paying clients with "Hello, sucker."; Keeping her ebullience corsetable with a diet of broccoli and orange juice, she shouts "Pull up your water wings" whenever somebody upsets a bottle and "Give this little girl a hand" when her well disciplined revue girls perform. Recurring padlocks merely furnished publicity for the launching of new Guinan clubs. The current one is the Texas Guinan's Club Intime in 54th Street. Amiable, witty, sentimental, blonde, mercenary, she keeps her age a secret, crosses herself when she sees a policeman...
Geraldine (Pathe). Booth Tarkington, amiable observer of smalltown surfaces, thought and wrote about a homely girl whose father brought home a bright young man to make her happy. The producers and players (Albert Gran, Marion Nixon, Eddie Quillan) got the drift of the thing, but not the kindly, Tarkingtonian sparkle. The result is only fairish...
...hurly-burly like that of the University of Missouri, (see above), but a sepulchral silence, fell last week upon the campus of the University of Detroit. By order of the President (Dr. John Patrick McNichols), the 300 girl students were forbidden to converse with the 2,900 boy students. They might, if they wished, say "Good morning" or even ''How do you do,'' but nothing more...
...scene is laid in a deserted church to which come a spiritualist, an international crook, two quarreling lovers and their mutual girl, and of course the man from Scotland Yard. For three acts lights go on and off, spotlights play, and one person after another falls into someone's arms or else is suddenly dragged offstage by a mysterious form. In the end somebody has to be found to be the villain or the play would have absolutely no raison d'etre, and the resourceful authors manage to pin someone down just in time to send the audience home contented...