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Word: inescort (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wisdom Producer Winthrop Ames picked Frieda Inescort. a young lady who, though she began her career in The Truth About Blayds (1922), is still well and honestly within her 20's. Discerning spectators along the "road" soon realized how lucky they were to see a Portia who was neither an old stager nor an eager young thing with stiff knees and an Eve's apple. Thoroughly feminine in the love scenes, persuasively austere in the court room, highly decorative at all times, the Inescort Portia was a characterization high of spirit, finely and clearly enunciated. After seeing her in Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Youngest Portia | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...pretty and accomplished young lady (Frieda Inescort), who is continually referred to as "that superlative creature," is married to a drink and dope addict. Her strong, silent friend (Tearle) takes the addict down to the seashore and kills him with a heroin and whisky cocktail. Returning, he vilifies the lady's father who has made the match and watched it smoulder because of his own ambitions toward the peerage. The girl falls, as planned, into the arms of a more agreeable matrimonial prospect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Oct. 20, 1924 | 10/20/1924 | See Source »

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