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Word: girofla (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more years, she played there again, for $1,600. By this time, Marie Dressier had had time to get married-to a handsome ticket seller named Hopper, from whom she was later separated -and to become a celebrated comedienne. She had played with Lillian Russell in Giroflé Girofla, with Joe Weber in Higgledy-Piggeldy, with Sam Bernard in a burlesque of Romeo & Juliet, distinguished herself as Flo Honeydew in The Lady Slavey. After an unsuccessful engagement in London, she discovered a one-cylinder farce called Tillie's Night mare, played it in Manhattan for two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tugboat Annie | 8/7/1933 | See Source »

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