Word: misses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Starting with the "A's", they called up every house, inquiring for "Miss" Abbott, "Miss" Abernathey," "Miss" Apley. If a "Miss" was there, she was subjected to a cross-questioning on her age and whether she would attend the Freshman dance...
...Miss Enters, who has many times refused invitations to do her stunt in Boston, has just cime back from Spain. Her two dances are based on recent experiences in the war gone...
...fire is, of course, the center of interest. Without it, "In Old Chicago" would be a mildly entertaining tale of an enterprising Irish family, generously sprinkled with songs by Miss Faye and with first-fights between Don Ameche and Tyrone Power. As it is, however, the fire provides a brilliant climax to the human-interest story, and supplements the historical background with as vivid and absorbing a spectacle as has been filmed in many...
Throughout the picture the acting is excellent. Miss Faye is enchanting as Belle Fawcett, a sort of nineteenth century chorus girl. Mr. Power is surprisingly modern and very real as a combination politician and saloon-keeper, and Mr. Ameche, in a simpler part, is satisfactory. "In Old Chicago" is well acted, masterfully directed, and provides first-rate entertainment...
Last fortnight Miss Curran and the Pennsylvania Museum's Director Fiske Kimball arranged a big exhibition of WPA art, the first time Philadelphia's Relief artists have had a decent chance to show their work under public auspices. The Philadelphia Record's Dorothy Grafly, ablest art critic in the city, previewed the show and reported that "the general level is higher than that displayed in many a non-relief exhibition." What, therefore, was the surprise of Philadelphians converging on the museum that afternoon to find 60 pickets from the Artists' Union and from the Barnes Foundation...