Word: misses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Declared Miss Gail Laughlin. Maine legislator: "There may be too much lobbying going on in Washington, but there is not nearly enough of the right kind." She urged more lobbying for the "20th Amendment" (equality of the sexes in all things before...
...last boat built by Chris Smith & Sons for Gar Wood was Miss America II in 1921. Today Gar Wood has his own boat factory...
...production can be easily classed among the list of better talkies. Mary Brian, Kay, Francis, Frederick March, Huntley Gordon and Lilian Tashman, not to forget five rampant little children,- all lend their personalities to the show to lift it from the rank of just ordinary movies. The youthful Miss Brian and Mr. March have the leads but the quintet of children, vivacious and at all times natural, almost steal the show from the two stars on several occasions...
...plot of "Her Private Affair" involves the murder of a man who had caught the heroine (Miss Harding, of course) in an indiscreet moment. Miss Harding is the charming murderess, and her subsequent trials and tribulations as she tries to work out her life, with all its complications of her con- science, as well as of relations with her husband, friends, and an innocent man suspected of the murder, form the basis of the story. Of course, the problems are solved happily in the end, but nevertheless suspense is extraordinarily well maintained...
Although there is nothing billed as a "short comedy", the Dramatic Club's advertisement for "Success" is acceptable for a few moments of fun. What with "Talented Miss So-and-so". "Charming Miss This-and-that", and the rest of the teaser, we were given a hearty laugh