Word: prudishness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Madrid tut-tutted while the roués pooh-poohed; it was bruited that Director Primo Rivera, real ruler of Spain, was riding for a fall. That Anthony had had his life blighted by a caressing Cleopatra was no reason why Primo should follow suit, so thought the prudish ones. Others, in true Latin form, made light of the matter, dismissing it with an expressive shrug of the shoulders. The truth was, so the rumor ran, that Primo had fallen in love, which, in the best circles, is not considered orthodox for a married man. La Caoba, "auburn-haired dancing...
...WARNING - The season's best shilling shocker at about twelve shillings a seat. But worth it. Mechanical tricks and theatrical ingenuity employed with spine-chilling effect. THE LAUGHING LADY - Ethel Barrymore is back in the drawing-room. As the somewhat declasse Lady Marjorie she is epigrammatically but insistently prudish about her love affair with the brilliant married lawyer who flayed her in the divorce court. P o L LY PREFERRED - Genevieve Tobin appears in a comedy with a perfect first act. A go-getter, finding a pretty girl stranded in the Automat, makes a movie star and finally...
...LAUGHING LADY ? Ethel Barrymore is back in the drawing room. As the somewhat declassé Lady Marjorie, she is epigrammatically but insistently prudish about her love affair with the brilliant, married lawyer who flayed her in the divorce court...
...LAUGHING LADY?Ethel Barrymore is back in the drawing room. As the somewhat declasse Lady Marjorie, she is epigrammatically but insistently prudish about her love affair with the brilliant, married lawyer who flayed her in the divorce court...
...LAUGHING LADY-Ethel Barrymore is back in the drawing room. As the somewhat declassé Lady Marjorie, she is epigrammatically but insistently prudish about her love affair with the brilliant, married lawyer who flayed her in the divorce court...