Word: marilyn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When she was 66, Patty Smith Hill was professor of Education at Teachers College, Columbia, a recognized authority on child education. Franklin D. Roosevelt was in the White House and As Thousands Cheer, starring Marilyn Miller (later, Dorothy Stone) and Clifton Webb, had Broadway by the ears. In one of this revue's most popular skits Clifton Webb appears as John D. Rockefeller Sr. while his children and grandchildren dance about him offering him a birthday cake and Rockefeller Center as a birthday present. They sing...
...virginal beauty for a vague another. More by good luck than good management she escaped the snares laid by a wily woman-hunter and the cruder advances of a loathsome dope-peddler. Fittingly established at last as private secretary to a rich lady of charitarian views, Mary (now Marilyn) met the man of her dreams, who turned out to be an inventor of genius, a gentleman born, and a landed proprietor. All the signs were right; Mary let culture go, fell into his arms, spoke naturally for the first time in her life: "I am glad that we have...
...Marilyn Miller's step-in was the chief acquisition of the couple who shared first prize with Mrs. Waterbury & Mr. Holmsen. At the theatre where Actress Miller is dancing in As Thousands Cheer, doormen and a detective fought off a score of scavengers who tried to invade her dressing room. After her maid positively assured them that Miss Miller had no extra underthings in her room, a stocking and a step-in were sent out, autographed "With love & kisses from Marilyn." Second prize was split between the couples who brought back Fanny Brice's brassi...
...less accomplished a talent than Ethel Waters is sprightly Marilyn Miller, who always seems illumined by a bright inward gayety. Not since Smiles (1930) has Miss Miller been seen on the stage. She rewards her many admirers for her absence with some brilliant ballroom dancing, a cunning burlesque of Lynn Fontanne, a sprightly tap dance in which, surrounded by funnypaper characters, she takes Skippy to her bosom, departs hand in hand with Mickey Mouse. At one point Miss Broderick tunefully predicts: "Uncle Sam will be in Heaven when the dollar goes to Hell.'' Even then As Thousands Cheer...
...traveling first class as usual, sleeping under dinin'g room tables, eating leftover cocktail party sandwiches. Shying off the scarehead name of Romanoff, he posed as a Fox Film Co. executive. He tipped the stewards handsomely with Editor Ross's $100, walked down the gangplank behind actress Marilyn Miller (herself an inadvertent stowaway last month on the S. S. Bremen with her new fiance, Film Actor Don Al-varado). To officials who asked for his ticket, he said he said: "My ticket? I've been asked for it twice and given it up once...