Word: cinderella
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Countess Tokiko Yamamoto, 73, Japanese "Cinderella"; of a stomach ulcer; in Tokyo. Third daughter of a poor fisherman, she was sold at 14 to the proprietor of a house in Tokyo's Yoshiwara (prostitution) district. A young naval officer fell in love with, kidnapped, married her. He became Admiral Count Gombei Yamamoto, twice (in 1913 & 1923) Premier of Japan...
...plutocratic United States and communistic Russia. When one remembers this, and hears the midnight oily speeches of the delegations, trimmed up with their little flags, so like a church convention, it is not easy to perish the thought that the League may, at Harvard, be only a kiss for Cinderella. Still, it is pleasant to see the delegate from Siam make a salaum to the gentleman from Azerbaijan. . . In the crimson simplicity of the New Lecture Hall...
...financier?Colman enjoys a badman's holiday. He plots with his confreres to steal the funds which the embezzling financier has secreted on the premises. When he has done so, he gives most of the money away to a tattered virgin (Fay Wray) who describes herself as a "desert Cinderella" and seems to have gotten into the picture when no one was looking. The Unholy Garden has the defect of implausibility but it is not wholly stupid. Good shot: Colman reproving an Algerian servitor who licks his chops when announcing that a lady wishes...
...premiere in Hollywood. It is, however, a wholly engaging trifle of sentimental comedy, lightened and made to sparkle by the acting of Ann Harding and Leslie Howard, whose slow progress toward cinematic celebrity is a reflection on his employers. The story is a revised version of the Cinderella legend concerning a girl whose parents have overlooked her charms. To attract the attention of a young barrister, the girl is forced to accept employment as nursery governess to his son. Disguised in spectacles, wig, puff-sleeves and a cockney accent, she interrupts the barrister (Leslie Howard) to bring him cups...
Apartment de luxe (3 rooms), unique and beautiful style of decorations not to be seen in any other apartment house; real Cinderella dream and the kitchen done most artistically: fit for fairies to cook in. ... Phone Mr. Rose, EStabrook...