Word: houris
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Author. Of indefinite age but of immediately perceptible dimensions, Mae West resembles her prototype, the over stuffed houri of the '90s. On the stage since she was eight, she has been a hoofer, singer, weightlifter, can still support 500 Ibs. She writes her own plays, casts, stages, directs them, plays the star roles. When admitting to 27 years she wrote her first play, Sex, for which she was arrested and served ten days on Manhattan's Welfare Island. Of her other plays, Pleasure Man was closed by the police after 3 days' run in Manhattan. The Drag never reached Manhattan...
...life cycle fully illustrated for the anthropologist, and objects of beauty for the lover of art. Whether it be the reliefs of the Assyrians from Khorsabad, the delicate gold and lapis of the Sumerians at Ur of the Chaldies, or the subtle modeled terra cotta of the Houri at Nuzi does not matter much. Each has its distinct and separate appeal...
...frustration and nervous disappointment. With a tact that the present generation does not deserve; Miss Hahn starts out on the long task of explanation and illustration. The terrifying suspicion grows upon one as she pro-Broadway entrepreneur masquerading under a feminine nom de plume, or, b) a former Hollywood houri with a degree of experience it is inconvenient even to imagine...