Word: pala
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Undesirable Lady (written & produced by Leon Gordon). Playwright Gordon ten years ago wrote something called White Cargo. The action was laid on a South Sea island and a character named Ton-deleyo raised merry Ned among the resident white men with her "mammy-pala-ver." Mr. Gordon's present drama takes place for the most part in the frozen North, but there is still plenty of "mammy-palaver." It concerns a murderess who flees with her elderly and devoted lawyer to the north woods when conviction seems certain. The old man goes snow blind. A strapping woodsman entertains...
TRISTAN & ISOLDE: RESTORING PALA-MEDE - John Erskine - Bobbs-Merrill...