Word: ladyes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lady for a Day (Columbia) is a Broadway sob story, highly effective because in it sentiment is used mainly as a springboard for comedy. Its heroine is a quaintly incredible old woman who sells apples on a Manhattan corner, guzzles too much gin, and corresponds with her daughter, whom she...
The club was giving a Saturday night charity show at $6.60 per plate. Some 600 guests attended, among them Senator Long. His host was Songwriter Gene Buck. The Senator had been drinking before he arrived at the club. His strident voice rang out louder than usual as he barged around...
The Masquerader (Samuel Goldwyn). John Chilcote, M. P.. harassed by drink, drugs, nervous instability and a vampire mistress, one foggy night bumps into an impoverished journalist cousin who looks exactly like him. The next day. too jagged to make an important speech, Chilcote calls on the. cousin, John Loder...
They are Ted and Lulu Hackett, happy hoofers whose act improves when small Ted Jr. (Jackie Cooperj is old enough to swing a cane. The Hacketts make the mistake of never changing their routine. Young Ted marries a danseuse (Madge Evans), takes to tippling and "chasing." She dies in an...
The Writer. Alice B. Toklas tells who and-to a certain extent-what Gertrude Stein is. but it will leave pedestrian readers still puzzling their heads over why this obviously shrewd and salty old lady, whose sentences may seem rather primer-like but are just as lucid as a primer...