Word: rambeau
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...discussion of what constitutes true beauty in the female form. The idea the editors tried to get across was that "flat flappers" are not desirable, that dieting is therefore foolish. Voluptuous, well-fleshed women are preferable, the article tried to say. More or less appropriately, poses by Marjorie Rambeau, Lenore Ulric, Gertrude Ederle, Ethel Barrymore, Helen Wills were printed to illustrate the point. The interesting thing was a detail which used to be unusual for a Hearst paper. However vulgar his aims and practices, Publisher Hearst never used to be accused, even by his most nauseated critics, of hiring writers...
Married. Mrs. Horace E. Dodge Sr., widow of one of the two Dodge brothers who founded the famed auto manufactory of that name; to one Hugh Dillman, actor, divorced husband of famed actress, Marjorie Rambeau, at Detroit, Mich. Mrs. Dodge is asserted to have recently purchased for $3,000,000 the Joshua S. Cosden estate at Palm Beach, together with its furnishings, works of art, etc., valued at $1,000,000. At the wedding was Edward Townsend Stotesbury, famed Philadelphia capitalist...
...Night Duel. Marjorie Rambeau was the principal reason for this production. She is giving a sound sample of a not unusual phenomenon-the good performance in the bad play...
...Miss Rambeau is called upon to solve again the old problem of how far a wife should go to keep her husband out of the villain's clutches. The clutches in this case mean a jail term. As usual the villain has loved the wife. This calls inevitably for a scene in the villain's bedroom with the wife preserving her self-respect at the point of a gun. There is a backspin on the ending, unusually sharp but scarcely worth the depression of the first three acts...
...Miss Rambeau plays the toast of Budapest several years after she has grown cold. She is married to a prosperous farmer when the call comes to return for just one evening to the old life. Diamonds and champagne and gypsy music stifle the stolid virtues of the prosperous granary. The trip is, however, accomplished without immoderate-moral mishap, and her only difficulty is in explaining to her husband the next morning the presence of two gay dogs who have brought the cafe band to play under her rural windows as the sun comes...