Word: gish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...musical composition a baby's cry reminded him of (Richard Strauss's Domestic Symphony). Catcher Moe Berg identified Garibaldi's Carbonari. Russel Grouse still thought the football team best suggested by an ocean was C. C. N. Y. (book answer: Tulane's Green Wave). Lillian Gish remembered her Browning better. The board recalled three of Peggy Joyce's four husbands...
When Scene Designer Robert Edmond Jones began the Central City festival (with Lillian Gish in Camille), he frowned on sideshows, drinking shindigs in the Teller House bar. Present producer-director of the festival is Frank St. Leger, Chicago musician. Last week square dances, tintype studios, night-club entertainers flourished once more in Central City. With The Yeomen running up the best box office in recent years, likelihood was that the festival would henceforth stick to plushy musical shows...
Three days after Mamba's Daughters opened, 19 notables-including Actresses Judith Anderson, Tallulah Bankhead and Dorothy Gish, Scene-Designer Norman Bel Geddes, Author Carl Van Vechten, and Publishers Cass Canfield and John Farrar -ran a testimonial in the N. Y. Times...
...daguerreotype, is based on the life of Jesse James. Playwright Ginty, with some support from history, has made James (Dean Jagger) into a droll sort of Jekyll & Hyde who, when not "riding out," is Thomas Howard of St. Joe, Mo., a sober family man with a mousy wife (Dorothy Gish), and a pillar of the local Baptist church...
Burgess Meredith and Lillian Gish portray quite sympathetically the couple who do well in poverty without knowing it but ruin themselves when they join the moneyed interests. Russell Collins is excellent as the uncouth fellow who remains fanatically honest, no matter where he finds himself...