Word: lorelei
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...characters all spring vividly to life, led by June Walker who, though brunette by birth and nature, offers a perfect performance as the cooing, wide-eyed, traveling siren, Lorelei Lee. Edna Hibbard's saucy nose, jaunty figure and coon-shouting voice add immensely to the personality of Lorelei's hard-boiled girlfriend, Dorothy, upon whose caustic nature has been fathered the echo: "Brunettes prefer gentlemen...
...effect, and her Boston exhibition was to be expected. But, Cincinnati, fore-warned, was spared from her baleful influence. Madame Gadski followed her; but the American Legion was awake to its duty. "Music hath charms", they remembered, and decided that her voice should be no incantation, like the Lorelei's, to woo her hearers into political philandering...