Word: hotly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lights of New York, first seven-reel all-talkie, is made by Vitaphone (Warner Brothers). It was undoubtedly put together in a hurry; but as an experiment, like the first hot-dog sandwich, it is a palpable hit. The story concerns a young man and a girl who left a small town to seek Manhattan fortune. The girl dances in a nightclub. The proprietor makes advances. The young man is forced into the bootlegging business, though he would rather be a barber. It ends, after several murders, with a philosophical detective advising the young couple to go back...
...Brooklyn, N. Y., one Nettie Friedman found a seat on a subway train, one afternoon last week. It was hot (84° F.) and fetid. People yawned and wagged their heads drowsily. Miss Friedman yawned. Nobody noticed anything wrong about her. At the end of ten minutes, she was still engaged in the same yawn, with her tongue hanging out a little farther. The lower part of her face and jaw were paralyzed. Several subway folk tried to help her, failed, then carried her off the train and called an ambulance. At the Jewish Hospital, a doctor massaged her face...
...Hot-weather friends: Good News, A Connecticut Yankee, Show Boat, Rain or Shine, The Greenwich Village Follies, Blackbirds of 1928, George White's Scandals...
...Europe. The virgin is taken to jail. Things look bad, but they are set to rights and the virgin gets a husband in the scion of the Park Avenue owners. Said Carl Helm, critic of the New York Sun: "Of course, we may expect things like this during the hot spell, along with the hives and sunburn, the difference being that you can do something about hives and sunburn." Be that as it may, Miss Alney Alba who plays the virgin is a pleasant happening among the flea-circuses on 42nd Street...
...leap out, down to the street four floors below him. As he did so, Ella Randolph, his nurse, scuttled across the room to stop him. Just as Horace Poor toppled over, she grabbed his ankles and held them so that he hung down head first, looking into the hot crowded street and waving his arms...