Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jerry for Short. William A. Grew, author of the smut-cracking comedy My Girl Friday, was mistakenly encouraged by its profits to display this naïve anecdote of innocence in Westchester County. In it romance is made difficult for a youth of the aristocracy and a peasant virgin; difficult also for Fiske O'Hara, who plays the lead and tries to ingratiate his audience by chatting and singing to them in an entr'acte...
...major political concession which Dr. Stresemann has sought for years-one for which Germans yearn with a passionate desire not fully realized in other countries-is swift, complete evacuation of the 60,000 Allied troops still occupying the Rhineland. Last week the short, soft fingers of the statesman from Berlin seemed to have virtually within their stubby grasp an Anglo-French agreement to evacuate the Rhineland at the latest...
...unconscious pathos continues the story of how Ex-Wife tried to make Ex-Husband's image dead in her heart. Numerous distractions, hard liquor, hard work and handsome men fill a certain gap, until she marries one of the last. Heroine and author are a bobbed, grey-eyed, short brunette still short of 30, mother of a five-year-old son. She is Katharine Ursula Parrott, ex-wife of Reporter Lindsay Parrott of the New York Evening Post...
...five years, excepting one short interval, Finance Minister T. V. Soong has found the money for the bigger-and-better conquests of his brother-in-law Marshal (now President) Chiang Kai-Shek. Last week President Chiang was so distressed by the resignation of Finance Minister Soong that he dropped all official business at Nanking, rushed to Shanghai, and day after day argued, pleaded...
...have liked to telephone Peru while writing The Bridge of San Luis Key. Nevertheless, the telephone operators of Lawrenceville may expect many a call for Buenos Aires to go through before long. Arrangements were made last week for International Telephone & Telegraph Co. to hook its telephone-subscribers to its short wave radio station at Buenos Aires and for American Telephone & Telegraph Co. to hook U. S. telephone-users to its short wave stations at Lawrenceville...