Word: tonks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...overtaking the movies nowadays is that if you miss a picture at one theater it is almost certain to turn up sooner or later at another. At the Central Square this week are two such attractions. "The Virginian," which has been reviewed before in the Playgoer columns, and "Honky Tonk...
...Honky Tonk" stars Sophie Tucker, and unless you like her particular and unless you like her particular genre of sentimental songs there is little of importance or entertainment in the picture. But it is innocuous at worst and not enough to keep one away from seeing its companion...
Miss Tucker, who is an ardent admire of England, is planning to return there shortly to take a principal part in a play by Jack Hurlburt and Paul Murray. Recently she has been making personal appearances at the showings of her talking picture, "Honky-Tonk...
Metropolitan -- "Honky-Tonk". Sophie Tucker in person. Beginning Thursday--"Fast Life" with Douglas Fairbanks...
...Honky Tonk (Warner). Alone on a vaudeville stage with a piano, Sophie Tucker is impressive. Although she sings with all the traditional embellishments of the three-a-day, her strong voice somehow manages to make trashy melodies sound like folk-songs. She makes even more noise than usual in this picture but without the effect she gets when she is closer to her audience. She is handicapped by her role as a night-club hostess, by bad songs, by a ridiculous story about her priggish daughter's love-affair with a bibulous millionaire. Long before the rich young...