Word: star
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Treasure Girl. As soon as Beatrice Lillie, her onetime co-star in The Chariot Revue, had opened in Manhattan (see This Year of Grace) Gertrude Lawrence opened in a musical show of her own called Treasure Girl. Gertrude Lawrence is certainly the most consistently beautiful of all modern song and dance actresses. The pictures of her face and front and back, which decorate theatre lobbies, do not have to be taken from some special angle or worked over by men with brushes. On her long legs, she moves rapidly about the stage and she sings less with her larynx than...
...Maryland, a supposed set-up chosen for the week before the Princeton game, smashed Yale 6-0, and smashed also Johnny Garvey, Yale's star halfback...
...still the smartest of the four daughters of Bernard Douras, Brooklyn (N. Y.) judge. She was educated in a Sacred Heart Convent and the Ziegfeld Follies, drawn for magazine covers, and snapped one day on the beach by a newsreel photographer. Louis J. Selznick, then Napoleon of producers, starred her; later she met William Randolph Hearst and joined his company, the Cosmopolitan. Now with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, she plays golf, stutters when excited, drives a Packard roadster, has a bulldog named inevitably, Buddy. On the lot a butler and cook give her lunch in a $35,000 stucco bungalow...
...game, although loosely played, was exciting all the way through, being characterized by many long runs and forward passes. The passing combination of T. H. Peirce '31 and R. B. Covel '29 worked well, with the latter on the receiving end. Robert Gilmor '31, who was the individual star of the game, made the third touchdown on a brilliant 35 yard run. T. H. Morris '29 made the fourth tally on an off-tackle play. G. L. Lewis '30 kicked two of the points after touchdown...
Canadian-born Fred W. Ramsey began as stockroom boy with the Perfection Stove Co. (subsequently absorbed by the Cleveland Metal Products Co.). Then in his mid-teens, he joined the Cleveland Y. M. C. A. and soon became, in sequential progression, star Boarder, among other things. At one point during his religio-business career he was about to leave business to become a "Y" secretary, but a factory manager died, Ramsey took the job of expanding the plant. As a director of the potent Cleveland Trust Co., onetime president of the Cleveland Aluminum Rolling Mills Co., Cleveland Foundry Co., financial...