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Word: lilies (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...finds that radio crooners are less romantic in real life than they seem on the air. Bill Williams is acting in a cinema, backed by a solemn Ernest-P. Baker (Stuart Erwin). directed by a sardonic Mr. Conroy (Ned Sparks). In the cast is Williams' temperamental mistress Lili Yvonne (Fifi D'Orsay), whom he describes in Going Hollywood's most sombre song as his Temptation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Lowell v. Block Booking | 1/1/1934 | See Source »

Meanwhile one of the trial's sidelights had the attention of the world Press and the Foreign Offices of two countries. It had been announced that no Communist or Socialist newspaper men would be admitted to the long press tables of the Leipzig trial. Two Moscow correspondents, Mme Lili Keith of Izvestia and M. Ivan Bespalow of the Tass news agency, made no efforts to invade the courtroom, but set up offices in Leipzig. Nazi police raided the room, ransacked it thoroughly and hauled both writers off to the police station for hours of questioning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Dumb Tool? | 10/9/1933 | See Source »

...yang and to inconstant to bound me with a gerl; prefair to flay from one to a other, as a butterflay who flay from one flower to a other one." Later he had many a protracted affair-with Angelina, with Olga, with his Aunt Emma, with Lili. "the noty gerl" who betrayed him for another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Munchausen & Editor | 7/3/1933 | See Source »

Goldie Gets Along (RKO-Radio) tells the familiar tale of the girl who tries to get to Hollywood by means of a beauty contest. In this case the girl is flaxen-haired Lili Damita and she enters more than one beauty contest. She enters a series of them promoted by one Muldoon (Sam Hardy) in various cities, always under a different name and always subsequent to having won over the local judges by her undeniable charm. It is then unscrupulous Muldoon's cue to offer her as the prize $1,000 or a non-existent ticket to Hollywood. Until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 12, 1933 | 6/12/1933 | See Source »

George White's Music Hall Varieties eschews the lavish surroundings with which Producer White used to set his Scandals, offers little new material but three bags full of entertainment in the persons of Lili Damita, Harry Richman, Bert Lahr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 5, 1932 | 12/5/1932 | See Source »

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