Word: parroting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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George Arliss, British actor, complete with dangling monocle, baggy tweeds, traveling tea basket, parrot ("Dink"), and the world's most monumental valet (George Jenner), entrained last week in Manhattan for Hollywood, where he will make for Warner Bros, talking pictures of his two great stage successes, The Green Goddess and Disraeli. Actor Arliss had just completed a five-month transcontinental tour as Shylock in The Merchant of Venice (TIME, March...
...King's mind will completely recover or not makes the general anxiety the more acute. All his most personal belongings have been taken to Craigwell House to help him recover: his famed stamp albums, his collection of gramophone records, most of them jazz tunes, his terrier, and Charlotte, the parrot...
...Washington. Dr. Brown eyed the patient diagnostically and stated: "You have hayfever." The stuffy head snufflingly: "Yes!!" Dr. Brown scraped the man's skin and tested it with every protein he suspected might have caused the hayfever. One protein reacted positively. Stated Dr. Brown: "You have a parrot in your home." Patient snuffled: "Yes." Dr. Brown: "Get rid of the parrot." The patient did so and never after had stuffy head, running nose, red eyes. The irritating protein was dust from the parrot's feathers...
...Harlequin are on the tiny stage of a travelling puppet show, and above them, in the miniature flies of the little stage, are the human selves of Jane Cowl, Philip Merivale and Guy Standing, who pull the strings of the dangling waggle-headed dolls. In the second act Peter Parrot, played by Philip Merivale, dreams all the company of puppeteers into the character and garden scene of the miniature play...
Casting offices in Hollywood last week offered $15 per day to those who could best howl like dogs, make parrot-noises, imitate chickens, cats and neighing horses...