Word: cupid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Every Manhattan news organ has now noticed this divorce broker. The small-town press has ballyhooed him in syndicated feature stories. Tabloid editors have gleefully plastered up headlines to the effect that Arturo del Toro is the "enemy of Cupid, the "king of divorce," the "boss of the Border bright lights...
...enemy of Cupid!" cried he last week. "I am the friend of Cupid- I give him another chance...
...Moore to his wife (Hilda Spong) who refers to him as "you horrible old man;" between the two there is an alternating current of abuse. Edna Best who plays Elsie Hilary is superior to Ina Claire in that she can deliver an epigram without tying her lips into a cupid's-bow knot; in some other respects she is her equal. The High Road is flawlessly cast and flawlessly acted...
...that it has ever failed to give one one's money's worth, but this week the Metropolitan gives interest--huge interest--in that Cupid-like "Barnum of Bandland," the rotund Paul Whiteman. But it has long been our opinion that Paul not only possesses his share of avoirdupois but also a proportionate amount or that something known as "it." To say the least, he and his music fill the mammoth Met stage as it has never been filled before with beats and throbs and sobs of soulful syncopation. In fact, Paul, surrounded by a more admirable bevy of beauties...
...Hubbard '30 stated that the affirmative side was not advocating inter- marriage, but that it did declare that any legal prohibition against intermarriage should be removed. "They say that Cupid is blind, very probably color-blind." He advocated social intermixing as broadening our civilization...