Word: keokuk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people, we follow Pierre and his friends in scenes of Bohemian gayety that owe practically everything to DuMaurier and Puccini's opera. Here are Mimi and Musetta, making merry in studio bedrooms and cavorting in the park on holidays. Except for a suspicion that Musetta is a child of Keokuk and not of Paris, it is all rather touching. They should really play the Musetta Waltz from "Boheme...
...made good literary material, perennially there has cropped out some work in which appears a gruff but indulgent father, a silly mother and a romantic daughter, all making the Grand Tour for the first time. Ada Beats the Drum is concerned with the antics of Mr. & Mrs. Hubbard (of Keokuk, Iowa) abroad. Having rented a villa in the south of France, Mother Hubbard (Mary Boland) encourages her husband, without much trouble, to frequent the local bars in the hope that he will bring home cultured "foreigners." But Mr. Hubbard's barroom friendships are consistently formed with other Americans...