Word: pennington
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year-old Follies. Thousands of pleading, imprecating letters from cloak-and-suit men the country over forced him to change his mind. Accordingly he has published a " revised " edition of the Follies. Retaining Gilda Gray, Gallagher and Shean, Evelyn Law, Andrew Tombs, he has added such personages as Ann Pennington, Brooke Johns, Eddie Cantor. The result is a freshening pulse throughout...
...Puffer Howes, Christine Ladd-Franklin or Helen B. Woolley, psychologists; Florence Bascom, geologist; Alice C. Fletcher (who died last month) or Elsie Clews Parsons, anthropologists; Cornelia Clapp, Katharine Foot or Mary J. Rathbun, zoologists; Lydia DeWitt or Louise Pearce, pathologists; Anna Johnson Pell or Charlotte Scott, mathematicians; Mary E. Pennington, chemist; Ellen Churchill Semple, geographer; S. Josephine Baker or Daisy Robinson, sanitarians, and several others. All of these women have national or international scientific reputations...
Jeff Thatcher is a poor boy. He is forced to leave Pennington Institute under a nasty cloud. Becoming a newspaper reporter, Jeff attends a train wreck. Somewhere under the debris he discovers an absconding cashier with $100,000 of the First National's securities. The reward and the kudos thus accumulated suffice for his return to Pennington, where he "makes" (the quotes are Mr. Scott's) the School Team. Naturally enough the school bully is his defeated rival for third base. In the "big" game of the season Jeff saves the situation with a triple play, unassisted, in the ninth...
...excellent thing to watch. There are pretty faces, there are Ann Pennington's dimpled knees, there are some settings of real beauty, there are curtains by R. Marsh, there are notable costumes. And the music is not offensive. Brooke Johns wields his voice and his banjo to good effect. Unfortunately there is also a plot-something about a magic chair that makes you tell the truth. The heroine injudiciously sits in it just before getting married. That, of course, makes tho wedding impossible, and it is some time before she can get started all over again on another...
John Murray Anderson's new musical production, Jack and Jill, just arrived at the Globe Theatre, marks the end of his association with the Greenwich Village Follies. The show boasts a distinguished cast-including Ann Pennington, Leanore Hughes, Georgia O'Eaney, Clifton Webb, Lennox Pawle, Brooks John. In the chorus are a number of young ladies celebrated at least by association-two sisters of Jascha Heifetz, violinist, Richard Bennett's daughter, Edward Locke's daughter...