Word: picnicers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Second Hand Rose"; she recites "Mrs. Cohen at the Beach." The plot is what it has to be to give her a chance to do her stuff. As a sewing-machine girl in a costume factory, she sings for the other girls at lunch, sings at the annual picnic, sings for the famed theatrical producer when he sends for her. Her singing and acting under Archie Mayo's directing make a trite story new and interesting, and give Warner Brothers a hit almost as potent as The Singing Fool...
Among other things, he saw Greenwich Village before the realtors "improved" it. He attended the joyous nocturnal picnic given on top of the Washington Square arch by a beautiful girl called...
...Denver, talked with Mr. Bonfils. They talked, off and on, for nearly a week. Finally, each agreed to kill a newspaper. This leaves Denver with the Scripps-Howard Rocky Mountain News for its breakfast table and the Bonfils Post for its afternoon fare, with both for its Sunday picnic. The prices were raised by both publishers from 2? daily and 5? Sunday to 3? daily and 10? Sunday. The Rocky Mountain News added Associated Press service to its United Press service.* The Post added...
...best high comedy, perhaps, is achieved by characters who are not prone to think of duty until after they have remembered all the other essentials for life's picnic. Margaret Lawrence has played roles in which she was far more charming than she is now as Mrs. Anne Whiteman; but, having had the courage to be unattractive, she also has the skill to make herself a nagging monster. The most noteworthy events in the career of Margaret Lawrence have been her returns to the stage; one, in 1918, after several years of leisure; the other last year after...
...Cardboard Lover. A public which votes a straight ticket because its father did, a public which sang "Yes, We Have No Bananas," which litters the countryside with picnic debris, has taken to Marion Davies. She appeared in Manhattan last week in something about a man who, wanting to make his sweetheart jealous, employed a cardboard lover. The cinema reverses the plot of Her Cardboard Lover (Jeanne Eagels...