Word: roses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...uninspired," "labored," Pre-Honeymoon "dull," "artificially pumped-up entertainment," "a whisky and pyjama brawl." With a great show of mock anxiety, how ever, most of them echoed the conclusion of the Times's Brooks Atkinson : "If it were not for the painful instance of Abie's Irish Rose, a critic might feel safe in dismissing Pre-Honeymoon...
Notable among the figure paintings were Sunday Morning, a clean, well-fattened woman in an old-rose dressing gown sitting up to a cold fireplace (see cut) ; Fay Read ing, a blonde girl in a slip with High Tide of the Flesh on her knee; Sleeping Girl, another blonde superbly relaxed. Such fleshiness caused lusty Painter Reginald Marsh to exult in the exhibition's catalog: "Everywhere in these paintings is luxury. There is wit and a fine, fat magnificence. . . . Miss Duller has painted this clean, opulent world with a terrible power...
...spectacled, able President Frederick S. Ferguson was quietly preparing to carry on without Ahern the daily and Sunday doings of Hoople & Co., which legally belong not to the cartoonist but to the syndicate. Reported inducements which led Cartoonist Ahern to abandon the pen & ink characters with whom he rose to fame & fortune: 1) In Hollywood where the Aherns live, Mrs. Ahern considers the Hearstian Los Angeles Examiner the leading paper, hence the one in which she prefers to see her husband's work; 2) a raise in salary from $35,000 to an estimated...
Docking in Manhattan after a year in Sweden, Greta Garbo granted the first formal interview of her career to newshawks. After ten minutes of evasive chit-chat she rose to go, was cornered by deep-bosomed Cinemactress Fifi D'Orsay who gurgled "GeeGee, do you remember Fifi? I am so 'appee...
...Manhattan, women passengers helped Mrs. Rose Granger, 19, from a subway train, modestly formed a ring around her on the platform while she gave birth to a two-pound...