Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Murderers in the death house, deposed kings, women scandalously divorced, disowned prodigal sons, can always dispose of the effusions of their pens. The yellow press is always ready to lap up their stuff and give worthwhile remuneration. Papers and magazines on a higher plane will readily print matter from pens whose writings they would not have bought had it not been for the fame or fortune of the hands that held them...
first play of the new International Playhouse flags badly after you have finished admiring the sets. It is a Chinese romance, decidedly Victorian in conception and development. Sentiment and joss sticks, torture and leering yellow faces are right enough in their place. That place comes dangerously near being the movies...
...Sarah Frances Frost ("Julia Marlowe") "a saucer-eyed, yellow-skinned girl of mel ancholic temperament," began acting in the late 80's, when "Poor Eddie" (E. H. Sothern) was playing Brooklyn in a farce he had written. "A nice lovable boy," said his tor." family, Sothern "but he made will his never name in make an ac Frohman melodramas, and was recognized as a romantic actor after his notable success in The Prisoner of Zenda. Miss Marlowe, after three yeara of intensive training with a certain Miss Dow, her stage aunt, began to take leading parts. In 1904 they...
...Julia Marlowe") "a "a saucer-eyed, yellow-skinned girl of l mel ancholic temperament," began acting in the late 80's, when "Poor Eddie...
Around a trunk in the Union Station, Toledo, crowded porters, reporters and detectives. With left hands they held their noses. With right hands they struggled awkwardly to open a "mystery trunk, which stank in a manner to indicate that it might contain matter for the strong stomachs of yellow journalism. Then, with a final "Right." Detective De Lora whanged the trunk open with a crowbar. Out rolled several dozen heads of cabbage. The trunk, emptied, was held for its owner...