Word: gooding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scheduled),* by $3,000 (the approximate fee) multiply and subtract expenses. . . . The figuring held no terrors for her. She had excelled in arithmetic back home in the Kansas City school-in arithmetic, deportment and singing. Singing had made her a Metropolitan Opera star at 19. Arithmetic broadened into a good business sense which enables her to make her own contracts to her own good advantage. In deportment there has been little change...
...Manhattan's most musical. When she made her debut at the Metropolitan in 1926, it was in the full glare of blazing publicity. Critics realized that the fuss was none of her making, that presses all over the U. S. were starved at the time for a good human interest story. They were for the most part kind. She had a pleasant voice. She might some day become an artist. And for three years they waited...
...moments in Three Cheers when he was being a little too much of a big brother to Dorothy Stone, for whose father, Fred, he had been persuaded to substitute; and there were other moments when he was too self-consciously ingenuous and stammering. Yet, as usual, his gags were good...
...Marriage Bed-Ernest Pascal, novelist, Ernest Pascal, film scenarist, becomes Ernest Pascal, playwright. While preparing dramas for the cinema he wrote a play, last week produced in Los Angeles with considerable California éclat and a good smattering of sound Manhattan theatre. It was an able play, staged with excellent ability by Robert Milton, famed Broadway director.* The principal performers were Alice Joyce and Owen Moore, cinemactors...
Alice Joyce gave a good show, perhaps the best job that any potent cinema player attempting the stage has done to date. She cannot, as yet, match talents with experienced Manhattan actresses, but gives decided promise. Owen Moore, less good, played sullenly. Both were nervous, appalled by the mass of cinema potentates in the opening audience, purveyors of huge talking picture contracts to players who can talk...