Word: lewd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Edward Hugh Sothern, oldtime Shakespearean trouper with his wife Julia Marlowe, spoke in Chicago about the U. S. stage. Said he: "Fifty years ago we led the world in stock companies of fine standards. Now we are in lewd and vulgar depths for the most part...
...height, 6 ft.; weight, 180 Ibs.; broad of beam, with hard muscles, calloused hands and beady, defiant eyes. She began by trying to wreck a Medicine Lodge grogshop with an umbrella. In later forays her weapons were bricks and stones wrapped in old newspapers. These she hurled through mirrors, lewd paintings, rows of glassware. With her famed hatchet she chopped up cherry bars, furniture, cash registers, beer kegs. Her battle cry to her followers was: "Smash, women. Smash...
...Vanities. Tanned, tamed after four months in federal penitentiary at Atlanta, Earl Carroll last October said good-bye to Warden John Wilson Snook.†returned to Manhattan, with nimble fingers went about the work of crocheting the seventh edition of his Vanities, lewd, nude, lusty revue. Last week it had its premiere; inaccurate cries of "Author!" brought Perjurer-Producer Carroll to the stage. Broadwayfarers howled obsequious approval, others beat their hands, a few figuratively beat their breasts. Carroll, producer, had produced; his show was a success...
Elmer Gantry. Evangelists are not popular upon Broadway and in the theatre they are monsters of depravity, to be baited and scorned. Sinclair Lewis in his savage history made Elmer Gantry a lewd and naughty figure. But in the play he is so wicked as to be incredible, an exaggerated bugaboo of vast proportion, snooping in his sordid tents with concupiscent treachery...
...simple plot; but within it are the jungle blues, the swaying bodies, the early-morning smells of Harlem-tied together by an urban Negro's unmistakable contempt for all things white. Many Caucasians will call it a lewd, crude book. It is certainly lacking in inhibitions. That is why it is more convincing, and hence a more significant work, than Carl Van Vechten's Nigger Heaven. "Liquor-rich laughter, banana-ripe laughter," says Jake. That, plus sad rolling eyes, is Harlem...