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...about blacks: necessary non-evils designed to disarm the middle-class public by stressing a minority group's similarities to it as a (possible) prelude to more eccentric and individualistic portrayals. For the moment, at least, that is the way gays prefer to see these pictures. Says Lucia Valeska, executive director of the National Gay Task Force: "If gayness is seen not as a deviant life-style but as something that happens to a lot of people, this can only be positive...
...early passengers was Minta Martin, whom he took ,up precariously perched on the leading edge of the lower wing. Another was Cinemactress Mary Pickford, for whom he played the villain in The Girl of Yesterday, renting himself and his plane for $700 a day. Still another was Musicomedienne Valeska Suratt, who planted three kisses on his cheek after he landed her in front of a crowd in Los Angeles. Blushing Martin ran away, later told newsmen soberly "her air conduct was good...
...style. There is a camera portrait of Mrs. August Belmont hugging her muff in the midst of a fake snowstorm. There are faro games, and the Klondike, Fanny Ward in "Pippino" and Maude Adams in "Rosemary". The drawing rooms of the Vanderbilts and the Astors vie in roccoco obscenity. Valeska Surrat displays the hour-glass silhouette which won her recognition as the Gibson girl and the enjoyment of generations to come. There is the Klondike, there are Carry Nation, Eugene Sandow, "bathing" suits, Floradora girls, Henry Ford, Jay Gould and a myriad more...
...other characters little can be said. Marie Nordstrom was pleasingly entertaining. Georgie Price still had his abundance of wit. Valeska Surati has evidently reached the peak and is on the decline, and can no longer represent the vampire with marked success...
...have all longed to know the life stories of our screen favorites, their ideals, their triumphs, and their sorrows. The dramatic pages of the daily papers have given us personal interviews with "Flary Flickford," "Clara Bara" and "Valeska Sewerat," but all such articles seem to suppress the essentials we cry for. At last the barriers are down, Lampy has made the flickering screen transparent, and our curiosity is entirely satisfied...