Word: misses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Briefly, the bicuspid-conscious critics of your movie reviewer display much more chivalry than imagination in their outrage. . . . Instead of limiting themselves to nasty remarks about your reviewer, I suggest that they start a fourth-party movement in defense of Miss MacDonald's molars...
...Paris creations. The Lord Chamberlain anxiously scanned the skies, as did King Edward. At last they took the risk of a second downpour and won. No U. S. ladies were presented except those in the diplomatic circle. Among young British curtsy-droppers whose mothers were U. S. born was Miss Virginia Brand. Her mother is the former Phyllis Langhorne of Virginia, a sister of Lady Astor...
...Trenton, N. J. last January one Joe Duggan, 14-year-old furnace tender, had the effrontery to call Jean Harlow in Hollywood on a telephone belonging to his employer, Charles Gerofsky. He spoke to her secretary, left a message which later caused Miss Harlow to call surprised Mr. Gerofsky. Last week the New Jersey Bell Telephone Co. arrived at a satisfactory settlement of its suit to make disgusted Mr. Gerofsky pay $20.35 for the long-distance call. Said Furnace Boy Duggan: "Gee, I'm sorry, Mr. Gerofsky. It was just an idea I had and I guess it wasn...
...view of the reputation that Miss MacDonald has established as a moving picture actress, such a comment by you or anyone else has about as much influence with the public as a wart on a dill pickle...
...which is now his principal financial asset. Stander's first important cinema role was in The Scoundrel (1935). His raucous, angry voice and guttersnipe demeanor stamped him immediately as a new and refreshing type, brought him a Hollywood contract. Since then We're in the Money, Page Miss Glory, If You Could Only Cook, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town and six other major pictures have been improved by his unvarying but authoritative version of the Manhattan sophisticate, hoodlum grade...