Word: nell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Daisy. A listless musical comedy. The cast includes Marie Saxon, whose legs win her at least the title of "The American Mistinguett;" Buster West, cute and toothy juvenile dancer; Luella Gear, William Kent, Nell Kelly. And yet it is dismal, for the lines are feeble, the tunes ordinary. The story deals with a husband who plagiarizes a book on mountain-climbing so his wife will not know he has spent all his time in Paris, none in the Alps...
Middle Seventeenth Century. Writer-folk had always filled him with awe: he patronized a hack-writer till the scurrilous wag wrote a lucrative burlesque on his patron's foppish existence. King Charles thereupon gave Orlando escape as Ambassador Extraordinary to Constantinople though Nell Gwyn regretted that such a pair of legs should leave the country...
...Kreisler and Ina Claire also came in on the Aquitania-he with pleasant words for Composers Gershwin and Youmans; she with the sentence, "I don't mind who does the singing and dancing, so long as the author gives me plenty of funny lines." She was referring to Nell Gwynne, a musical comedy in which she will appear in Manhattan...
...Mary Lewis), a title (Jessica Brown, Countess of Northesk), "the dogs" (libel law prohibits names), the drama (Ina Claire). Few return. An exception is La Claire, whom many regard as the most pleasing U. S. actress. She contracted last week to star for Ziegfeld's fall musical piece, Nell Gwynne...
Died. Holbrook Blinn, 56, famed actor (Salvation Nell, The Bad Man, The Play's The Thing), son of Nellie Holbrook, actress and Republican campaign stump speaker; of blood poisoning; at Croton-on-Hudson...