Word: maes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mae Murray, flutter-footed cinemactress, sued Fox Theatres Corp., Peter Clark, Inc., Flatbush Ave. & Nevins St. Co. and William Fox Circuit of Theatres for $250,000, claiming that while dancing at the Fox Theatres (Brooklyn) last December her heel caught in a crack on the stage causing her to trip, fall, break a bone in the invaluable left foot of Mae Murray...
Divorced. William Ashley Sunday Jr., son of the hot-shouting evangelist; by Mrs. Julia Mae Sunday; at Los Angeles, Calif. Grounds: mental cruelty...
...express to hell. Sometimes local color dams up the story, but mostly, in spite of the temptation of spirituals, it is under control. Vidor's skill as a picturemaker is enough alone to make Hallelujah one of the best films of the year. Best actress : brown-yellow Nina Mae McKinney. not yet 18, who became a Manhattan chorus girl at 12, was picked by Vidor from the chorus of Blackbirds. Best tune: "The End of the Road" by Irving Berlin. Most dramatic sequence: Hot Shot (William Fountaine) running through the swamp when Preacher Zeke comes after him to avenge...
...Mae West, fat actress, was told to close Diamond Lil in Detroit last week because the play was "silly and stupid, holding no moral and teaching no lesson." Later Mayor John Christian Lodge relented, declared: "The show will be given a chance to revise itself...
...Lansing, Mich., courtroom last week Judge Charles B. Collingwood was sentencing Mrs. Etta Mae Miller. It had taken a jury of eight men and four women only 13 minutes to find her guilty. She was charged with having sold two pints of liquor. She was charged also with being a "habitual criminal," inasmuch as this last offense was her fourth. So to her said Judge Collingwood: "It is the sentence of this court that from and after this day you shall be confined in the Detroit House of Correction for the remainder of your life." In the same court...