Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nonetheless, This Year of Grace is a buoyant revue: a little long, perhaps, Coward a little too ambitious, but it has assuredly presented two song-hits of the immediate future, a dozen superb drolleries, and the unforgettable Lillie...
...Treasure Girl. Gertrude Lawrence is certainly the most consistently beautiful of all modern song and dance actresses. The pictures of her face and front and back, which decorate theatre lobbies, do not have to be taken from some special angle or worked over by men with brushes. On her long legs, she moves rapidly about the stage and she sings less with her larynx than with her eyes and hands, which, in Broadway musical shows, is a virtuous ability. Treasure Girl is not fair...
...they bury the hatchet? Because newspaper wars, especially long ones, cost money. Because Denver advertisers, and all advertisers, prefer two papers to four papers, especially when the two papers represent monopolies in their respective (morning and evening) fields...
...instinct, training, and disposition, Rogers Hornsby is a superlatively good baseball player. Yet of late he has not stayed long on any "club." Three years ago he was made manager of the St. Louis Cardinals; they won the pennant and he was traded to the New York Giants, where he was captain and assistant manager; last year he was traded to Boston where he squabbled with onetime manager Jack Slattery, a native of the city, and supplanted him as manager. Because Bostonian baseball fans were annoyed at this and because Rogers Hornsby demanded $50.000 yearly, Judge Fuchs sold him. Hornsby...
...Paris the new Orchestre Symphonique gave Arthur Honegger's Rugby a successful première. In the U. S., Composer Honegger is famed for his Pacific 231 through which he sniffs and snorts to resemble a giant locomotive. His Rugby, long heralded, is a sound picture of a football match in which smart, broken rhythms tell the struggle of the players, the excitement of the crowd...