Word: misses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This Year of Grace," a regue by Noel Coward, presented at the Selwyn Theater under the direction of Arch Selwyn, with a cast containing the author, composer and Miss Beatrice Lillie...
...This Year of Grace" is a plain spectacle, not to be compared to the Broadway durbars of Mr. White and Mr. Carroll, and plumes and rosettes are absent from what Mr. Woollcott used to term the decor. Except for the miraculous waltzing of Mr. George Fontana and Miss Marjorie Moss, it is, in the matter if beauty, no great shakes, as Mr. St. John Ervine would call it. Mr. Walkley once said of Pavlowa that she was not like flame and wind, but that flame and wind were like her. I wish I had time to think of something equally...
Twenty-six years ago Miss Berry founded a school high in the Georgia mountains. The schoolroom was a log playhouse on Captain Berry's estate. The pupils, ten, were the children of poor families living in the mountains...
...President Coolidge awarded Miss Berry the Roosevelt Memorial Association medal "For Distinguished Service" (TIME, May 25, 1925). Last week. Miss Berry received yet another honor and reward. She won the annual prize of $5,000 given by Pictorial Review magazine to the U. S. woman who has made the greatest contribution to art, letters, science or the social sciences. None doubted that Miss Berry would immediately turn the $5,000 to profit for her school...
...spinsters in a sparkling seaside village, or one of masculine bitterness in the sinister backwoods. In the first, two old maids are fond of each other, fond of their shop full of cross-stitch samplers, fond of the two little donkeys, Percy and Emily, which trot by every day. Miss Alice is going to marry Mr. Maurice Hunting; she meets him formally to accept his offer of a week ago, and he tells her his plans, tells her his hope of having two children, tells her of the legacy from his late Aunt Emily, his expectations of feeble old Uncle...