Word: misses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There was no visible or audible audience reaction because, according to London journalists, Britishers "assume that when a performer leaves the stage the act is over." They were genuinely surprised when Miss Raye reappeared long enough to shed her dress completely, revealing her torso heavily enmeshed in spangled net. London's press reported next day that "after a long silence 'some few people clapped miserably'," but meanwhile the hardboiled, factual London scout of Broadway's stage sheet Variety cabled...
...like rim of Washington's Tidal Basin was pink & white with cherry blossoms last week. As it has many times before, the city celebrated the event with a festival embracing barefoot dancers, band concerts, fireworks, and the crowning of the 10-year-old daughter of the Japanese Ambassador, Miss Sakiko Saito, as Queen of the Festival. The entire performance brought to the District of Columbia an estimated 200,000 visitors, who left behind in hotels, shops and theatres about $5,000,000 in cash...
...mounts, presses, tools and letters all the bindings. For decoration she uses the purest gold leaf, occasionally platinum. For leather she prefers Cape Levant from the backs of goats that have run wild on the Cape of Good Hope for seven years. A surprise among the priceless rarities in Miss Lahey's exhibition was the original typescript of Calvin Coolidge's autobiography, presented free and unsolicited to Mr. Morgan a few months before the author died. For this Miss Lahey found suitable a binding of baby blue French Morocco, decorated with a border of small...
...successful Hearst city editor, inventing a newspaper game in which players use pictures of people, would surely include a flattering photo of Miss Marion Davies. In the instructions would be warnings on the law of libel. And in the game, news items would stress crime, sensationalism...
...Miss Quis (by Ward Morehouse; Vinton Freedley, producer). Liz Quis (Peggy Wood) is a worn spinster who does housework for most of Fancy Gap's prominent townsfolk, including fiery old Colonel Selby, veteran Indian fighter. The Colonel has a great love for Fancy Gap, hates the other leading citizens' pettiness and rapacity, which he believes to be handicapping the progress of his town. When he dies, knowing that Miss Quis shares his feelings, he leaves her his mansion and his fortune, hoping she will be able to get rid of the undesirables. Armed with a sheaf of damaging...