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...Died. Lilyan Tashman (Mrs. Edmund Lowe), 34, cinemactress, "best dressed woman in Hollywood,"; after an operation for tumors; in Manhattan...
...stroll in the park, gets mistaken for the playground commissioner, then accidentally gets the job. He keeps it until he finds out that his political patron is using him as a blind to sell defective ladders and trapezes. Then he stops making advances to the patron's wife (Lilyan Tashman), resigns his job, gets a black eye, totters home in time to appeal to the sympathies of his spouse...
...servants (Nancy Carroll) and becoming a son of honest toil instead of a Paris taxi driver, it does so in an obvious and sensational way, using the stock episodes of crown jewels, an escape to Constantinople, a U. S. heiress and the officer's slinky Moscow mistress (Lilyan Tashman). As sometimes happens in such cases, there are moments in Scarlet Dawn so well imagined that they make the rest of it seem even more shoddy than it is; the one, for instance, in which Nikiti's wife polishes his boots when he is preparing to desert...
...loud & leering orgy of indelicacy & suggestiveness." Subsequent Follies helped to make Ziegfeld a millionaire, "glorified" a succession of beautiful women,* including Justine Johnstone, Olive Thomas, Marilyn Miller (he called hers "the most beautiful form in the world"), Yvonne Taylor ("she wore the most beautiful tights"), Mae Murray, Lilyan Tashman, Ina Claire, Billie Dove, Mary Hay, Nita Naldi, Marion Davies, Peggy Hopkins Joyce. He was responsible for the fame of Will Rogers, Bert Williams, William Claude Fields, Eddie Cantor, Jack Donahue...
...majority of men who attend cinemas follow the dictates of their companions, there is only one woman director in Hollywood (Dorothy Arzner) and no important woman executive. The Mad Parade is the first picture with an entirely feminine cast. Men are constantly discussed by the women members (Louise Fazenda, Lilyan Tashman, Irene Rich) of a canteen in the War, but no male actor appears in the picture with the possible exception of a large rat at whom the heroine (Evelyn Brent) throws a hand grenade...