Word: lillian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sensational murders and scandalous divorce cases PM also avoids, but in spite of this fact, and of the group of intellectuals (Dashiell Hammett, Dorothy Parker, Lillian Hellman, et. al.) who assisted at its birth. PM is no high-brow sheet. Publisher Ingersoll declares frankly that it is aimed at the masses and the low-income groups (incomes of $750 to $4,500 a year). For them he provides two pages a day devoted to labor news, union activities and unemployment, also bargains in food and clothing, cartoons by some leftist artists, drawings and photographs of garment workers, Negro scrubwomen, shirt...
...Lillian Russell (20th Century-Fox), Producer Darryl F. Zanuck's semi-annual rummaging in the attic of U. S. culture, nostalgically evokes the howling vulgarities of the gilded era. This time the hourglass figure of Singer Lillian Russell serves as a prop on which to drape a long (two hours) and lavish account of her vocal triumphs and marital monotonies. For reasons which the picture never clears up, Alice Faye is cast as Lillian Russell. Queues of top-hatted gentlemen, roomfuls of roses, $15,000 trinkets sent her anonymously by Diamond Jim Brady fail to dent her indomitable domesticity...
Arriving in Manhattan for the opening of Lillian Russell, new movie in which they have a reminiscent sequence, Oldtime Funnymen Joe ("Mike") Weber, 72, and Lew ("Meyer") Fields, 73, promptly went into their 63-year-old act at Grand Central Terminal: Meyer cuffed Mike, shook him like an apple tree. When they paused for breath, Weber growled: "All people ever wanted to see us for is to watch Lew knock the hell out of me." Mourned
...American Jubilee opened with it. Supercolossal it is: on a 300-ft. outdoor stage, in a blinding light, over 300 people march, waltz, sing, clown, wave flags, ride horseback, bicycles, automobiles, to the crashing of a tremendous band. Washington is inaugurated, Jenny Lind warbles, Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address, Lillian Russell & Diamond Jim Brady roll up to Rector's in a victoria, T. R. leads his Rough Riders, and in a stand-up-and-cheer finale, Mr. X is inaugurated President...
...Lind's melting How Can I Ever Be Alone?; most atmospheric thing are its sets, reproducing such bygones as Federal Hall, Barnum's Museum, the old Astor House. On opening night wind & rain turned the stage into a Great Wet Way, drenched hundreds of bright costumes, ripped Lillian Russell's magnificent white-plumed hat right off her pretty head...