Word: strumpeteer
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...West has produced another screen play which she wrote herself. . . ." Whether or not Klondike Annie is really worth the attention of Congressmen will depend on how familiar they are with earlier West efforts from which the current one differs only in detail. This time she is a San Francisco strumpet who knifes her Chinese paramour, slips on board an Alaska-bound freighter, enraptures its captain (Victor McLaglen), befriends a churchworker bound for Nome, usurps her identity when she dies, lands in Nome as Sister Annie Alden, enslaves a young territorial police officer (Philip Reed), renounces him rather than ruin...
...like proportion there are few scoundrels. Not since the passing of him, known as Petty-John , and his motley crew have there been organized drinking bouts in Lowell House. If a statement had to be made, it might well have been based on facts bearing a few degrees the strumpet is to starve her to death. George T. Skinner...
First president of the union was Maria Gonzalez. A tall, angular woman of 29 notably lacking in sex appeal, she operates a room or as she prefers to call it a "ship" within Mexico City's tolerance zone. Loudly last week she issued her strumpet call...
...earliest, most famed of composopraphs. the Venus of Urbino has the head of the wealthy, potent Duchess of Urbino attached to the body of a honey skinned Venetian strumpet. "The position of the left hand," wrote Mark Twain, "is one of the most brazen pieces of impudicity I have ever looked upon...
...problems of a handsome young North Carolina mountaineer (Shepperd Strudwick) whom neither God nor the girls can let alone. Off and on he turns down the prettiest wench (Joanna Roos) and the richest heiress in the hills (Virginia Milne) and reiterates his call to preach the Word. Finally the strumpet's father takes up his squirrel rifle and puts a bullet through the novice preacher's heart. Sighs the boy's aunt: "You was too big for your britches." Of such ancient and sure-fire material, the authors have made a puttering first act, a stirring second...