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Word: girls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...theme is familiar. Gladys, a chorus girl, wants a man with money. She finds soon enough dollars are not as nice as Neil Hamilton's square jaw and swift right job to an opponent's proboscis. She gets him in three episodes...

Author: By A. G. C., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 12/1/1928 | See Source »

...those who enjoy the precocious if somewhat naive prattle of wide awake found ladies with a "career" on the stage awaiting them "Angel Child" by Grace Perkins is just the thing it is so to speak the diary of a girl of thirteen who travels the circuit with her mother and plays juvenile parts mean while keeping an open eye upon the rest of the company life in general and a place in the moving pictures in particular...

Author: By H. F. S., | Title: BOOKENDS | 11/27/1928 | See Source »

Ruth Shepley plays the sweet girl whom Slippery marries; and theatre-goers with good memories recall The Boomerang wherein Ruth Shepley played another such, spraining her ankle nightly for the furtherance of romance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Qualities of Moissi | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...heir falsely insists that the figures seen en route to furtive passions were those of himself and one of the suspected women's housemaids. This precipitates a semi-tragic interruption of the endearments which had hitherto been passing between the Keith scion and a nice young girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Qualities of Moissi | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

They showed a rich American scorning war; later joining up. They showed him, by a misadventure, killing his buddy and feeling pretty badly about it. Cynics recalled a not dissimilar situation in Wings. They showed his loved one as a song and dance girl in an army theatre. They showed his loved one all but shot as a German spy, her salvation being his presence in the firing squad. Suddenly German shells dropped and the whole crew were tumbled into a nearby cellar. A convenient priest began to read from the Bible the story of Noah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood Openings | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

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