Word: papa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Story. Harold Prewett met his father for the first time at the age of 21. His mother had died in childbirth and that shock, and the disappointment occasioned by Harold's not being a girl, had so disappointed Papa that he turned over Harold to Aunt Sadi, who made rather a sissy of him as a boy. Conventional, ingenious, inexperienced, Harold was horrified to find that his father's plans for his future included neither a family reunion nor an entry into the paternal cloak and suit business, but that instead his father proposed flinging him into the waters...
...Bound. The heroine's papa is murdered following a raid on a Florida Casino. To everyone but the audience the hero looks like the bad boy with the knife. He isn't. But the cast has a chance to wear a lot of expensively terrible clothes. It is one of those full dress suit movies where everything appears to have been hired for the occasion...
...Coney is said to be a ride-The Caterpillar operated by the owners of "The House of 1,000 Laughs." John Barrymore is at present in Morocco, perhaps preparing for Othello. Theatre tickets in Berlin now run to 39,000 marks or so. " Give us a couple of million, papa. We're taking the girls to a matinee!" The Hairy Ape has been passed by the British censor of plays for future production in England-all but one little word. The word is "bloody." You can write it, but you can't speak it-at least according...
President Li of China: " I found it impossible to believe my ears when I heard my fifth child say: 'Papa, I can't hear you! I am not going to talk any more! ' to me over the wireless telephone. I called up my home by telephone to make sure that there had been no trick. The whole affair rather upset...
...very hotel where everybody else in the cast was stopping, and start earning an honest living there as a waiter under the name of Henri Dupont? And what did little daughter do but feel strangely drawn at once to the elegant waiter who reminded her so of the papa she loved? And then, of course, there were two more acts, all full of complications. The Duc lied about himself like a French gentleman, and said he wasn't the Duc-and the millionaire's relatives cried: " Aha, our boy must not marry the child of a waiter...