Word: misses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...usually makes her. Changing A Most Immoral Lady into a picture has slowed its tempo and made even more insubstantial its faint flourishes of wit. As though recognizing this the producers have dressed it up with some expensive sets and a little indifferent singing. Silliest shot: rich codger telling Miss Joy why he admires...
...contracted to sing in Philadelphia and Manhattan first. Her latest enthusiasm is one of Mr. Insull's "office boys," a young man named Hamilton Forrest who, unbeknownst to Mr. Insull, composed an opera and threw himself, as many other youths have done but without his languid charm, upon Miss Garden's bounty. "He is di-vine!" she says, kissing her fingertips as she has seen the French do. "And 7 discovered him! I have done as much for French composers, for Italians. That at last I should have discovered an American...
Engaged. Hunt Wentworth, assistant to the president of Curtiss Flying Service, grandson of Chicago's twotime (1857-1860) Mayor John ("Long John") Wentworth ; and Miss Eileen Smith; at Chicago...
...first editions of several of William Makespeace Thackeray's works is a copy of "The History of Henry Esmond. Esq. A Colonel in the Service of Her Majest Queen Anne, Written by Himself." This is of particular interest because it is the presentation copy; inscribed in Thackeray's handwriting: "Miss Brote, with W. M. Thackeray's grateful regards. October...
Under such conditions, the best of acting is liable to be submerged. Yet Mr. Faversham succeeds in injecting a considerable amount of gracious humor into his role, and Ara Gerald, although her part was exceptionally maltreated by the playwrights, is both attractive and capable. Miss Atherton plays the conventional caricature of an English governess...