Word: homespuns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Permitting Chrystal Herne to roam at large as the girl from home, handling sentiment with veracity and putting the color of conviction upon the butterfly who bursts from her homespun cocoon. Miss Crothers, moreover, does not allow her to sacrifice a career on the alter of Willie's toothpaste. Louise Closser Hale (oldfashioned mother), Merle Maddern (vampire), Alan Brooks (artist) and Richard Sterling (Willie) are others who are sufficient unto their parts. The producers?Equity Players...
...honest homespun play still holds the boards, and always will, but many a gold brick passes on its tinsel. Affairs might reach a worse state than this, for this at least is fire and food for Grub street, God bless its honest soul...
...benefit of Dr. Wilfred Grenfell's Mission, tomorrow afternoon from 10 A. M. to 10 P. M., the New England Grenfell Association will hold a sale in the Lobby of the Copley-Plaza Hotel. Homespun, hooked mats, baskets and other articles made by the women of Labrador and Northern Newfoundiand will be on sale...
...spirits. In 1768 four were expelled for bombarding the study of Mr. Willed, a tutor, with bricks. Also the graduating class of that year aroused the ire of the Royalists by refusing to graduate in British clothes--worn by all fashionable people in those days. They appeared in American homespun and American boots...