Word: master
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Serge Diaghilev, onetime ballet master of the Russian Imperial Court, introducer of Russian ballet to the U. S.. developer of famed Dancers Nijinsky. Lydia Lopokova, Anna Pavlova; in Venice...
...Hollywood Revue (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). This is good-humored, fast film vaudeville, with nice tunes and without a story. There are some new tricks in it. When the master of ceremonies looks for Bessie Love he finds her in his change-pocket; a lilliputian Marion Davies appears with a chorus of giant Grenadiers, later grows up to normal size. During one of the color sequences there is a trick with perfume; the spectators sniff-is it possible?-yes, they smell orange blossoms. Gus Edwards sings "Lon Chancy Will Get You If You Don't Watch Out;" Norma Shearer...
...Almanac lampoons, floats laughably about the stage, an hilarious Zeppelin brightened with a Mazda smile. "How is my dear old mother tonight?" someone asks her. "Lousy," she replies. Fred Keating, a magician by trade, stuffs birds down his shirt front in a highly invisible manner while acting as master of the rakish ceremonies. Noel Coward, Peter Arno, John McGowan and most admirably Rube Goldberg are implicated in suitable capacities, as is the author of a song called, "I May be Wrong." Credit for the rest of the Almanac's sophisticated virtues should be laid to John Murray Anderson...
...ship had changed owners. Not the Hamburg Kauffahrtei Gesellschaft, to which they had belonged for so many years, but a firm known as Felix Prenzlau & Co. would pay their wages in future. In the freight trade one Captain is much like another. They were not excited when their new master, one Capt. Tipplitt, came aboard. But Capt. Tipplitt turned out to be different...
...company. It was under his youthful stimulus that the business began advertising, expanding. Still young (38 years), clean-shaven (Squibb's shaving cream), smiling through white teeth (Squibb's tooth paste), healthy (Squibb specifics and much horse backing at Fairfield, Conn., where he is a master-of-hounds and keeps an airplane), President Palmer's policy has been to market standard and recognized medicines under their own names and advertise the Squibb as a trade-mark of quality, rather than to purvey medicines of unpublished ingredients with fancy names and irresponsible claims of merit...