Word: miss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chief difference between Negro Less Taylor, a tenant on the J. W. Copeland plantation in Washington County, Miss., and 200,000 other sharecroppers and renters in Mississippi, is that Less Taylor got for his lawyer old Percy Bell of Greenville, onetime chancery judge and independent as a hog on ice. Chief difference between Landlord Copeland and many another in the Yazoo Delta is that he did not get away with making a good thing of The Book. At Jackson last week, the supreme court of Mississippi reversed a Washington County Chancery judgment, declared: "According to the appellee's [Copeland...
...first time in palace history an American girl was allowed to "swing it" with the musicians. The swingstress was 20-year-old Evelyn Dall, a lissome ash-blonde from New York's Bronx. A onetime hoofer in Billy Rose's Manhattan Music Hall. Miss Dall went abroad in 1933, was leading lady with the Monte Carlo Follies for a season, then joined the London swing band. London cafe-goers know her as ''Ambrose's Bronx Bombshell." Miss Dall, whose real name is Evelyn Mildred Fuss, took her stage name from that of President Roosevelt...
...portrait of her because he had made her: 1) round shouldered, 2) redheaded, 3) thick-thighed; had not shown her red fingernails; had made her look "like a droopy sack of cement with a rope tied around it." Sit-in model for the portrait had been Mrs. Pogany. Snapped Miss Bennett: "Why, that woman is an Amazon!" Snorted 55-year-old Willy Pogany: "She wanted me to compromise with my artistic honesty." The jury, so instructed by the judge, found that Actress Bennett owed Artist Pogany nothing...
...Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A heartened hopers for church unity by its mastery of both tact and tactics. Ever since the Civil War this church has remained separated from the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. (South). Last week, winding up their General Assembly in Meridian. Miss., Southern Presbyterians approved the work of their committee which is negotiating a reunion with the Northern church. And in Philadelphia. for the first time in nearly 50 years, the Northern Presbyterians elected a Moderator from the South. (Although there are no Southern churches in the North, there are 100,000 Northern...
...unshakable logic of this plot has recommended it to producers: it appears, not once, but twice, on the local screen. In "Joy of Living" (Joie de Vivre) the girl is Irene Dunne, and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. is resented and married. The carefree abandon of this film, the charm of Miss Dunne, Jerome Kern's music, the able comedy of Jean Dixon, atone for the rest of the cast and make this a very fine farce...