Word: whiffen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Anniversary. Mrs. Blanche Whiffen, oldtime actress (nearly 400 roles), celebrated her 84th birthday on her farm near Montvale...
...rackets, Sir Arthur Wing Pinero wrote a play called Trelawny of the Wells. Its wit was distinctly of the lavender variety. Its entrances and exits were deftly manipulated amid fluffy excitement. A year ago, George C. Tyler revived it on a Manhattan stage with 83-year-old Mrs. Thomas Whiffen, John Drew, Pauline Lord. People loved it, forgot about it and flocked to the new musical comedies. Now it has been made into a film by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and called The Actress. The director, Sidney Franklin, has handled it tenderly. Norma Shearer,* though not the ideal Actress Rose Trelawny...
Birthday for Mrs. Thomas Whiffen, grand old lady of the U. S. theatre (born March 12, 1845). She played with charm the role of the grandmother in the musical comedy, Just Fancy, in Chicago, professed a little stage-fright after 63 years on the boards...
...course, meant crinolines; and humor, unfortunately, to match. Pretty tunes and pretty Ivy Sawyer contributed gently. Raymond Hitchcock, infrequent player in Manhattan of late years, developed ingenious theories on the sex of the sardine; was aided ably by Eric Blore, an ass, very bally. The indomitable Mrs. Thomas Whiffen (who first appeared some 50 years ago as Buttercup in H. M. S. Pinafore), danced spryly to an old-time waltz...
Thus is the tenderfoot regaled in lightly populated sections of the continent, where roam the sidehill gouger, the minktum, tigermonk, high-behind,* lava bear, hoop snake, jointed snake, Peruvian whiffen-whoofen, banana fish, mile-or-more bird and other creatures of times and times ago The fauna of folklore is too elusive for collectors but sometimes an unidentifiable species strays into the newspapers. Two summers ago northern New Jersey was terrorized by a "devil" which sounded, from the skimpy descriptions brought in by terrified natives, like a carnivorous cousin of the cougar and the kangaroo. Last week...