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...conscious, realizes it is falling flat, and ends up as out-and-out burlesque. If "Worth A Million" had tried to compete with the Old Howard, from the start, it could have made better use of its east. Glamor-the old and the new -is represented to perfection in Nita Naldi and Cobina Wright, Jr. Nita is dark and over-weight. Junior is blonde and slim. He stature is picturesque. She deserves to have a play built completely around her--a play which would just stop in the middle and give the audience a chance to look and wonder...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 3/6/1940 | See Source »

...With other young, gregarious and jolly Germans from uptown Yorkville and The Bronx, Hauptmann found his way to Hunter Island on Long Island Sound. Among his friends were John Braue, now a counterman at the Radio City Doughnut Shop, and Anita Lutzenberg, a dressfitter for Oppenheim, Collins & Co. "Nita," explained Braue, "liked to jump around and go with this man or that on the beach." It was not long before she was jumping around with "Dick" Hauptmann. And "Nita" Lutzenberg did not like conventional photographs iked to do things and make funny poses." Little did Photographer Braue realize that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs, Oct. 8, 1934 | 10/8/1934 | See Source »

...Subsequent Follies helped to make Ziegfeld a millionaire, "glorified" a succession of beautiful women,* including Justine Johnstone, Olive Thomas, Marilyn Miller (he called hers "the most beautiful form in the world"), Yvonne Taylor ("she wore the most beautiful tights"), Mae Murray, Lilyan Tashman, Ina Claire, Billie Dove, Mary Hay, Nita Naldi, Marion Davies, Peggy Hopkins Joyce. He was responsible for the fame of Will Rogers, Bert Williams, William Claude Fields, Eddie Cantor, Jack Donahue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Glorifier's End | 8/1/1932 | See Source »

...star customer's woman.* Last week 1,100 brokers at 20 posts applauded Miss Cleary's audacity. Next week 1,099 members may have a chance to "haze" a pretty young stockbroker in skirts.f For Miss Cleary is pretty. Last week she saw screen star Nita Naldi and a prize beauty off for Europe on the midnight S. S. Paris. Flashlight men found her more smartly dressed than the former, prettier than the latter. Under the hard daylight of Watson & White's uptown stockbrokerage office in the Hotel Berkeley, she is thought still prettier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Skirts | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

Cobra. Rudolph Valentino, in the role of a very good young man who simply will not succumb to the dizzy wiles of Nita Naldi, has little to do except look pretty. Which, his income tax report will show, he does about as well as anyone in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 21, 1925 | 12/21/1925 | See Source »

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