Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the producers may hurriedly purchase jokes and humorists in abundance and lighten up their handiwork. In such a case the show should be an enviable success; at present it is a lazy heavyweight. Miller and Lyles, colored comics, obliged with a few jokes. Hazel Dawn, one-time famed "Pink Lady," was the prettiest principal. But in a time of red-hot temptations, hers are mauve...
...Hazel Dawn, famed "Pink Lady," is again before the public. Name her vehicle...
...heroine nervously tugs at her glove under cross-examination, the country, is told in a special edition. If the hero waves on the witness stand, pink-sheeted extras herald the indiscretion. With the skill of true playwrights, the reporters interlard the main action with willy bits of byplay between the lawyers...
...Volga Boatman. Cecil B. DeMille, whose name has become synonymous with ridiculous excesses in bathtubs and flappers, has turned to Russia. He has taken the seething horrors of the Russian Revolution and turned them into a pale pink romance that will give you the fidgets. The Boatman of the title falls in love with the Princess, and the Princess falls foul of the wicked soldiers. The picture is often rescued by sets and photography of startling beauty...
Here is a novel-reader's novel, splashed with color, with consummate skill laid on. It begins in Abyssinia in afternoons hibiscus-red, rose-pink, iris-purple; in twilights of sapphire-matrix, gold lacquer, saffron fire, blood-scarlet; in sepia shadows of moonlight and, far and far away, star-spangled indigo of the lower sky. There, in a barbaric dawn, John Masterson, a normal middle-aged Englishman, ponders the news that he is heir to a fortune. Only a prayer-got sense of duty persuades him to accept it. Returning to London, he finds his fortune times and times bigger...