Word: hostess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...demonstrations of Mrs. Roosevelt in all these capacities by this week when the time came for her to function formally as First Lady, at the opening of Washington's social season. U. S. women of all ranks and ages were waiting to see how she would perform as hostess of the White House. That Washington's fifth Depression winter would lack Taftian social glitter was to be expected. But busy Mrs. Roosevelt announced two innovations calculated to strip the season's social functions to the bare bone of practicality...
Died. Mary Louise Cecilia ("Texas") Guinan, fiftyish, famed night club hostess; after an operation for ulcerated colitis; in Vancouver, B. C. Born on a potato ranch near Waco, Tex., she left a girls' school to become a rodeo performer, appeared in early western films as ''The Female Bill Hart." In Manhattan, she caught step with the tempo of the Prohibition-Prosperity era, found she could pack her gaudy hotspots by treating her customers with brassy insolence. She had a battalion of attorneys to keep her out of jail for prohibition offenses. Her star waned with the dawn...
...live goat (non-political); the bandeau from the head of New York's most gracious hostess; a hair from Kermit Roosevelt's mustache (if he will permit such familiarity); a live turtle; the most beautiful woman in New York not yet present at the party; a bottle of good champagne unopened until passed on by the judges; any bird (not canaries or common sparrows); the future Mayor of New York, or his signature dated tonight; the autographed bodice or "stepin" of one of New York's most popular actresses; the private visiting list of Miss Juliana Cutting...
...skooter and I was the boy on the bike." It is one of the best that I have seen in the musical movies. Then there is an annelid formation of beautiful legs to a catchy tune, photographed effectively at an unusual angle. Texas Guinan is a superb hostess as she should be; and a Gregory Rathoff as the dancing teacher, Max, supplies a few very funny lines and a convincing pertrayal. If there has been less plot and a little more song and dance. "Broadway Through a Keyhole" would have been the best movie musical to date...
Brief Moment (Columbia) exhibits the difficulties that attend the marriage of an intelligent night club hostess to a wealthy ne'er-do-well. Abby Fane (Carole Lombard) marries Roderick Deane (Gene Raymond) with a very clear idea of what his family's reaction will be. In the course of a prolonged honeymoon, she acquires culture, fashionable boredom, a suspicion that her husband is more stupid than she thought at first. He enjoys being sponged on by his friends, particularly approves of a languid professional punster named Harold Sigrift (Monroe Owsley). Abby badgers Roderick into going to work...