Word: starbuck
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Confirmed the nominations of: George T. McDermott, Orie L. Phillips, Curtis Dwight Wilbur as U. S. circuit judges; Julius Klein as Assistant Secretary of Commerce; William D. L. Starbuck and Charles McK. Saltzman as Federal Radio Commissioners; Raymond S. Patton as Director of the Coast & Geodetic Survey...
...President Hoover appointed Lawrence M. Judd, rancher and county supervisor of Honolulu, to be Governor of Hawaii, succeeding Wallace Rider Farrington. eight-year incumbent. Another appointment: William D. L. Starbuck, New York mechanical engineer, patent attorney, Democrat, to the Federal Radio Commission. As President Coolidge had unsuccessfully done before him, President Hoover sent to the Senate for confirmation the name of Irvine Luther Lenroot, onetime (1918-27) Senator from Wisconsin, to be Judge on the U. S. Court of Customs & Patents Appeals...
...colored revue, "Blackbirds" is well into its second year of performance as is "Show Boat". "Hello Daddy" after a bad start is a popular show with Betty Starbuck affording most of the fun: "The Red Robe" and "The New Moon" are the two best romantic musical comedies and for sheer extravagance of costumes nothing can touch Earl Carrol's "Floretta...
Hello, Daddy! Ever since Betty Starbuck was seen partaking in the frivolities of the Garrick Gaieties, there have been those who regarded her as among the most pleasing of sarcastic heroines; yet she never received her due. She does not receive it now, in Hello Daddy!, though with Billy Taylor and Lew Fields, the publicized star of the show, she does all kinds of things that are engaging. Lew Fields produced the piece; his son, Herbert (Connecticut Yankee) Fields, wrote the book; his daughter, Dorothy (Blackbirds) Fields, wrote the lyrics...
...from Charles Petit's novel. Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart managed to engender "Better Be Good to Me" and "I Must Love You," but they were neither lyrically nor musically up to standards of their Garrick Gaieties or A Connecticut Yankee. Helen Ford as Chee-Chee and Betty Starbuck as Li-Li-Wee were respectively arch and charming. George Hassell squealed and grunted in cagey fashion as the Grand Eunuch. Chee-Chee would be funnier if it did not so faithfully preserve its "you're mine and I love you" attitude toward the slimy joke of compulsory castration...