Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brazen Lady Nicotine has grown bold. She now walks the streets in the better part of town and openly solicits the patronage of the young folks. Be careful Old Girl or you'll find yourself behind a deadline down in the restricted district along with John Barleycorn, where you belong...
These were not the words of an ignorant chorus girl, chronicled in a cinemagazine, but those of Ethel Barrymore, put by herself in Manhattan's latest smart-chart, The American Sketch. With her were many more, bewailing, in violent fashion, the too few compliments with which U. S. critics had observed her, and other words celebrating the pretty speeches made to her by Max Reinhardt and polite Edouard Bourdet. Principally, it appeared to be a blast of publicity for Actress Barrymore's latest venture into theatrics, which last week opened in Manhattan, The Kingdom...
...picture, she sings "My Man" again and also her other famous songs, "I'm an Indian" and "Second Hand Rose"; she recites "Mrs. Cohen at the Beach." The plot is what it has to be to give her a chance to do her stuff. As a sewing-machine girl in a costume factory, she sings for the other girls at lunch, sings at the annual picnic, sings for the famed theatrical producer when he sends for her. Her singing and acting under Archie Mayo's directing make a trite story new and interesting, and give Warner Brothers...
Born Borach, daughter of a French Jew who ran saloons in Newark, Brooklyn and Manhattan, Fannie Brice was romantic partly because she was homely and awkward. When she got a job in a department store she pretended she was starving and her father was blind; when the girls and the floor superintendent gave her presents and money, she laughed and said that she was only fooling. At Keeney's Vaudeville House in Brooklyn when she was 13 she won $10 on amateur night singing "When You Know You're Not Forgotten by the Girl...
...expression of humor but simply of nervousness, a way of reminding themselves that it's all make-believe. When an insane murderer fixes his gaze on Chester Conklin's twitching face, they laugh; when a hairy hand comes out of a wall and yanks a beautiful girl into a secret passage, they laugh; they laugh at abduction, poisoning, ghosts. That the squeals of expected, shivery laughter greeted this adaptation of one of Owen Davis' less terrifying plays was mainly brought about by Director Benjamin Christensen who gave a trite plot (heirs looking for money in a millionaire...