Word: shows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...party reached the State Game Lodge at Custer Park after dark, cameramen could not well picture their arrival. U. S. cinema patrons will, nevertheless, see the event quite as if it happened in broad daylight. For, on the following morning, the President and Mrs. Coolidge staged an after-the-show rehearsal and motored up to the lodge with cameras vigorously grinding. ¶Household employes at the State Lodge are under the supervision of Miss Ellen Reilly, White House housekeeper. Miss Reilly came to the White House some twelve months ago. She had previously been employed in the Boston department store...
...made an entire country as small and closely knit as a village. Usually it is the village bad boys and girls-erring corset salesmen, twisted sex victims, brawling cinema actors and actresses-who make the rest of the villagers sit up, rub eyes. But whether it is a good show or a bad show or a peep show, the newspapers have certainly brought the art of ballyhoo to new heights of volume and penetration. Through it all, the hero of the occasion has been, appropriately, the most heroic aspect of it. Never has his tongue or his balance slipped, always...
...after the first hop. ¶"The Columbia is not on the market," said Mr. Levine when Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, rich U. S. slacker now living in Germany, offered to buy the monoplane. Mr. Bergdoll let it be known that he desires to fly to the U. S. to show that he is no coward, that conscientious objection was his only reason for refusing to fight in the World...
...aided efforts to show the possibilities of controlling malaria in nine North American states and in Porto Rico, Nicaragua, Salvador, Argentina, Brazil, Italy, Spain, Poland, Palestine and the Philippine Islands...
Talk About Girls is a summer musical show, advertised by an honest press agent as "better than most," which is no panegyric. There are two impecunious fellows who masquerade in Lower Falls, Mass., as captains of industry. They are soothingly played these hot days by Andrew Tombes and Russell Mack. During their pretentious sojourn in the small town they become involved in a water power deal of large proportions, and love. The comedy consists of scrambling out of the mess of presumptions on the day of reckoning with a whole face and heart. From this the reader may have guessed...