Word: star
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...John McCormack, Irish-American tenor, returned from Ireland and announced he might sing "The Star Spangled Banner" at the Smith rally in Madison Square Garden, Manhattan, "provided, of course, that I'm wanted." Wanted, he sang...
...less auspicious than this cash endorsement by leading advertisers** seemed the roster of Britannia's first three star contributors: Benito Mussolini, Arnold Bennett, the Earl of Birkenhead...
...star serial feature of Britannia's first issue, "My Life,'' by Benito Mussolini, has already appeared in Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis' Saturday Evening Post...
Take Me Home. When a comedy is weak there are three things a director can do to make it better: 1) keep the star changing her costumes; 2) have her fall down a lot; 3) hire a funny subtitle writer. In this routine picture of a chorus girl in love with a country boy, Bebe Daniels gets no mud on her clothes although all other devices for bolstering the plot are liberally used. Onetime chorine Lilyan Tashman, as the musical comedy star who leads Rube Neil Hamilton to her Fifth Avenue house, acts better than Miss Daniels...
...already he was scribbling skits for Fun, curtain-raisers, burlesques; and very shortly he was squabbling with insubordinate actresses, and spiting their conceits by planning non-star librettos...