Word: kiki
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kiki. Norma Talmadge has seized upon the extraordinary stage success so long the exclusive property of Lenore Ulric. Miss Talmadge makes that lovely rowdy even purer and more wholesome than she was on the stage, more so than she ever could have been in her native Paris. Little matters of plausibility, however, cannot be cited as adverse criticism of slapstick comedy, for such Kiki has become and as such it is eminently entertaining...
Metropolitan--"Kiki" with Norma Talmadge and Ronald Colman...
...Kiki Cuyler (Pittsburgh) drove out a two-base hit. The score was Pittsburgh, 9; Washington, 7. It was all over...
...boyish-faced Bluege behind the ear with a pitched ball. Spectators moaned. Having just commemorated one death, they feared they had witnessed another. Bluege revived, walked off the field. Moist-handed Pitcher Coveleskie, the Polish Spitballer (Washington), did well until the eighth inning when with the score tied, Kiki Cuyler (Pittsburgh) knocked a home run into the convenient right-field fence. Washington retaliated by filling the bases with none out in the ninth. Pitcher Aldridge had reserve and courage enough left to limit this rally to one run. Score: Pittsburgh 3, Washington...
...Redeeming Sin. The cutting edge of Nazimova's personality is far too sharp for such crumbly material as this affords. She plays the Paris cocotte who had a good heart after all (cf. Kiki). Lou Tellegen, as the Apache, and a lot of fairly well faked Paris scenery are also thrown away...