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...club-the El Fay. An El Fay waiter sold a bottle to a customer with a badge and the club was given a padlock and a front-page story. In a new club Hostess Guinan continued to greet her friends with "Hello, Johnny" and her paying clients with "Hello, sucker."; Keeping her ebullience corsetable with a diet of broccoli and orange juice, she shouts "Pull up your water wings" whenever somebody upsets a bottle and "Give this little girl a hand" when her well disciplined revue girls perform. Recurring padlocks merely furnished publicity for the launching of new Guinan clubs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Mar. 25, 1929 | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Like a Lord | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...Wolf of Wall Street. Suspecting, probably correctly, that film audiences may not know much about the technique of the stockmarket, Paramount has kept as simple as possible this story about the big trader who is a sucker in love. The Wolf explains stratagems to his partners with a blackboard and pointer in a way that can be understood by anyone who can cut out a paper doll. That this will bore persons familiar with Wall Street methods is unlikely, however, for Mrs. Wolf's infidelities are effectively and seductively acted by Olga Baclanova. Best shot : Miss Baclanova biting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Feb. 11, 1929 | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

...abandoned strokes because for scornful presentation it is necessary only to be cameractual, phonographic. The rest of the characters look, smirk and jabber as if they belonged. The story is that of Buddy Miles, an apparently pure in body−if not in spirit−miss who is prize sucker-bait at "an exclusive gambling casino." First to be hooked is Chris Miller, part-owner of the gambling-purgatory. Buddy Miles is not aware that her best friend, Julia, estranged wife of a detective, was Miller's mistress, so when Julia jealously threatened to blab to Buddy and thereby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 24, 1928 | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

...stage-Jans & Whalen of the Keith circuit, Laura Wilkinson of the Body obviously Beautiful, singers of blues. There is a heavy tragic skit in which Texas weeps real tears, thanks the audience with honest sobs for their applause. Intimate glimpses of her night club adventure are revealed. "Hello, Sucker, Whaddaya mean ya been overcharged, lemme see that check. Why, ya poor sap! $124, huh! Sucker, you had two tele phone calls. Don't be dumb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jul. 18, 1927 | 7/18/1927 | See Source »

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