Word: plugger
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...Author. Edna Ferber, short (5 ft. 3 in.), Jewish, unmarried, was born in Kalamazoo, Mich., lives in Manhattan but likes Chicago best. She started newspaper work at 17, sold her first story when she was 23 (she is now 44). A plugger herself, she likes to write about workers. Her two ambitions: "To sit in a rocking-chair at the corner of State & Madison streets [Chicago] and watch the folks go by"; "to live on a houseboat in the Vale of Cashmere." Author of many a short story, co-author (with George S. Kaufman) of two Broadway-produced plays...
...Pringle, and Lilyan Tashman are arranged in support of Harry Richman, Manhattan night-club entertainer, who has never made a picture before and who is suspected of having negotiated his engagement to Actress Clara Bow to make the cinema public curious to see him. The story concerns a song-plugger who forgot his old friends in the hour of success and subsequently went blind drinking bad booze. At the end there is a suggestion that the blindness will not be permanent. Most important in the picture are the songs, and the best of them, soon to be heard from...
...cast is headed by Odette Myrtil, a rough-voiced Parisienne who makes pantherlike glides around the stage while playing cardiac tunes on her violin. This combination of music and motion is popular, but by any comparative standard the name of Laura Lee, the show's small, vivacious song-plugger, should also be featured...
...George Jessel has tried to put over just one more play touching the recent unpleasantness. It gets off to a slow start and the first act is rather tiring, though from time to time the explosion of a good gag recharges the air. Eddie, the little East Side song plugger is drafted and-runs off to Armentieres, but that basic development takes almost an hour. There is of course, his sister's boy friend whom he distrusts, who he later finds ain't done right by her, and whom he chances to meet again in a shell hole...
...want the burden of supporting his mother (Clara Langsner) to fall to his sister (Shirley Booth). He is drafted, sent to France. In a Y. M. C. A. hut he meets his onetime sweetheart (Lola Lane), learns she has married Eddie's onetime pal and fellow song-plugger (Raymond Guion), both of whom are singing and dancing for the delectation of the troops. From that point the story fizzles into a sequence of capture by the Germans when Eddie meets in a shell-hole an officer who had seduced his sister. Behind the German lines Eddie learns from...