Word: mabell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Louis Exposition, lost his money, started again from scratch in Los Angeles shortly afterward. Friendly, willing in the pioneer days of the cinema to deliver personally a 50? stick of grease paint, Factor established his business on the firm basis of getting exclusive endorsements for his products. Mabel Normand was once his No. 1 endorser. Today nearly every important cinemactress, except Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich and Miriam Hopkins, is on the Factor list. With 70 distribution plants throughout the world, Factor claims he is the leading cosmetics manufacturer in the U. S., says he has cut into the French export...
...solid hours newshawks waited outside glass doors while Inventor Maxim gesticulated with his glasses. Lecturer Thomas propped print after print on an easel. Editor Williams squinted, argued, paced the floor. Finally the judges emerged, smiling amiably and announced their decision. First prize of $1,000 went to Miss Mabel Graham of Lebanon. Ky. whose Portrait of Margaret, a picture of a laughing little girl in a party dress, clutching a balloon (see cut), had been entered in the national contest by the Louisville Courier-Journal. Louisville newshawks found Miss Graham, a teacher in the Lebanon High School, all warm...
...only bit of advice we have for you if you don't like Munny Luncefowl he is at his best, and is supported by an all-colored cast of rhythm-mongers in a state show that should be violence to even the most sophisticated inhibitions, Miss Mabel Scott in particular, whose offering was announced simply as a song and dance, almost forces the Playgner to became lyrical; her technique might shame any of the personality girls since Delilah. There is also some glorious from a quarter known as the Four Glaute of Harmony, and quantities of dancing, especially by John...
Only in her account of life abroad does European Experiences take on its odd, composed, hilarious air of being a gravely philosophical account of extremely funny incidents. Pursued relentlessly by admirers of both sexes, Mabel seems to have known one European experience completely?that of narrow escape...
Precisely where Edwin Dodge fitted into this strange life is by no means clear, since at critical moments in the narrative he seems always to have been in the U. S. Hospitable, inquisitive, wide-eyed, awed by the glamour of European reputations and European love affairs, Mabel Dodge was often irritated by her husband's "inferior sophistication," his Boston facetiousness, his lack of respect for famed visitors, as well as by his occasional puritanical insistence that certain forms of nonsense stop...