Word: nice
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Abysmally ignorant U. S. news organs told that the train wrecked was the Simplon-Orient Express. The distinction, nice, between the Orient and the Simplon-Orient is that although both run Balkan-ward from Paris through the Swiss Simplon Tunnel, the Orient later branches off to Bucharest, and the Simplon-Orient to Constantinople...
...Flonzaley Quaretet have recorded and beautifully too Beethoven's quartet No. 2 in G Major, complete on four ten inch records. Very, very nice...
...Dancing Daughters shows young life cocktailored by Director Harry Beaumont. It is exactly the atmosphere on the screen that F. Scott Fitzgerald's books have when you read them and that they do not have when filmed. Joan Crawford, a nice girl who acts wild, and Anita Page, a nastv but quiet girl, are after Rich John Mack Brown. Miss Crawford, competent actress, drinks out of the cocktail glasses of three young men and later in the evening kisses three young men in turn, in public, and Rich Boy Brown marries mercenary Miss Page. Young love is thwarted...
Hitherto Andorra has been almost inaccessible, tucked away remotely in the Pyrenees. But the syndicate will build motor roads, a railroad, and import the fripperies of Nice, Biarritz and the Lido...
...produced by the Garrick Players during the season. This particular piece, first presented at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, London, by Sir Nigel Playfair, concerns the presentation by Mr. Vincent Crummies' Players, of a play which portrayed the temptations and disaster of a young apprentice in the City. A nice, tweedy audience enjoyed the "satirical picture of the players, adapted from [an episode in] Charles Dickens's Nicholas Nickleby...