Word: sirened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play gives one the impression of having been written in sections. Such a system could hardly fall to produce some good scenes. Fortunately both Miss Hitz, as the siren heroine who robs the hero of his heart in the very first line, and Mr. Nedell, as the big strong man who uses cave-man methods as a last and successful resort, found the parts suited to them and the result was distinctly good...
...Siren of Seville. Priscilla Dean has only one fault that bulges out. That is her disposition to play before the camera too infrequently. It is the opinion of many that she is a figure, that she should be fixed in the fronk rank. The Siren is one strong proof. The story tells the familiar bullring yarn-the matador who becomes famed and forgets his childhood sweetheart. The sweetheart saves his life in the final bullfight scene, wholly preposterously. All this Miss Dean whips into fresh and agile entertainment. There are not many actresses equipped for such a task. Forbidden Paradise...
...miles further; then the Lawrence, 126 miles beyond. At last Admiral Magruder on the Richmond sighted two specks and ordered his ship to belch black smoke as a guiding signal. As the planes flew overhead and down to the beflagged moorings in Ice Tickle, the Richmond's siren shrieked a welcome. On a cliff overlooking the mooring place was fixed a brass plate, made on the Richmond, already engraved: "American aviators completed world flight, Aug. 31, 1924." The trip was not "complete," having started from Santa Monica, Cal. But the fliers were back in North American waters, 5 months...
FATA MORGANA&#!51;One naughty night done to a turn, in a saucy Hungarian comedy of the city siren and the country swain...
...magic fish, an enchantress-siren...