Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Innocence. Here is Edith Wharton's story of the Countess Olenska, eloquently transferred to the stage by Margaret Ayer Barnes. The Countess Olenska returned to Manhattan, leaving her horrible Count in Europe. In Manhattan she met Newland Archer; they fell in love, but Newland married a girl to whom he was engaged. Newland Archer and the Countess nearly ran away together when the horrible Count crossed the ocean to retrieve her; but Newland's wife was too feeble for the Countess, who was sick of cruelties, to injure; so Countess Olenska returned to her Count and Newland Archer...
...life. With his mother, an actress, he grew up in road-shows, later filled inkwells for a San Francisco rubber company, played in stock and finally in a picture, The Snob. Mary Pickford gave him his first big part (Heart of the Hills). In 1918 he married a girl who put on an act in his base-camp; later they were divorced. He married Leatrice Joy in 1921; they were divorced. He has a 92-ft. schooner called The Temptress, drives a Packard, plays tennis fairly well, golf badly, is careful with his money and reads Shakespeare. He dislikes romantic...
Mother Stoner, too, organizer of the World League for the Promotion of Genius,! had something to say: "Poor girl! It is a terrible thing to be in the public eye as a so-called prodigy. No one who has any sense wants to be appearing in the papers...
Grand opera was the dream of this girl from Detroit. Between vocalizings, however, she found it necessary to get a job, and she got one in the office of blithe, clever Editor Wyckoff. She became his stenographer and secretary...
Among other things, he saw Greenwich Village before the realtors "improved" it. He attended the joyous nocturnal picnic given on top of the Washington Square arch by a beautiful girl called...