Word: pennington
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Clara, married to Violinist David Mannes and running with him the Mannes School of Music; Pianist Elizabeth (Mrs. Henry T. Seymour); Conductor Walter; Conductor Walter's wife who was Margaret Blaine, daughter of the late Senator James G. Blaine; Conductor Walter's four daughters-Alice (Mrs. Pleasants Pennington), Gretchen (Mrs. Thomas Knight Finletter). Anita (Mrs. Robert Littell) and Leopoldine (Polly) who is a pianist. Damrosch faces are everywhere during the season, in Manhattan's musical circles...
...Pennington, a little older* than she was at first, flung herself here and there in the motions of a new dance called Pickin' Cotton. Frances Williams shuffled also while she sang a song of which the words were "What d'ya Say?" Creeping forth from his cool cabaret with enhanced joie de vivre, Harry Richman shouted "I'm on the crest of a wave. . . ." As in all of Producer White's assemblies, the footwork in the Scandals was swift and spry, attended to by Tom Patricola, a pair of coordinated sisters, a well-coached chorus...
...night by A. R. Sweezy '29, chairman of the Committee, includes the following: Mrs. Robert E. Bacon, Mrs. Albert S. Bigelow, Mrs. Charles P. Clifford, Mrs. Stanley Cunningham, Mrs. Philip S. Dalton, Mrs. Robert L. DeNormandie, Mrs. Arthur L. Devens, Mrs. William Elkins, Mrs. Arthur E. French, Mrs. J. Pennington Gardiner, Mrs. Henry S. Grew, Mrs. Robert H. Hallowell, Mrs. James Jackson, Mrs. Tarrant P. King, Mrs. A. Lawrence Lowell, Mrs. Matthew Luce, Mrs. John Parkinson, Mrs. Charles A. Porter, Mrs. Charles A. Pratt, Mrs. Everett B. Sweezy, Mrs. Henry D. Tudor, Mrs. Joseph Warren, and Mrs. William S. Youngman...
Tillie the Toiler (Marion Davies, Matt Moore). According to Subtitle-Writer Ralph H. Spence, Tillie is the sort who wears two pairs of garters, "one to hold up her stockings and one to hold up traffic." The minx sets her cap for her wealthy employer, Pennington Fish. To land him she toys with the firm's general manager, Benjamin Franklin Whipple, a fop, declaring as she proceeds that she "will catch the rich Mr. Fish by using Whipple as the worm." In due time, however, all this diabolism is put aside in favor of wholesome matrimony with a sober...
...fall of what is evidently a good operetta in other places; one is the cast which, with the exception of an energetic young lad with a flare for burlesque; a large sized edition of Lenore Ulric, who flings herself about with enjoyable abandon; and a blonde variety of Ann Pennington, who possesses all the well known Pennington attributes including the dimpled knees, is distinotly mediocre. The other reason lies in the fact that a play billed as "gorgeously mounted" ought, in all propriety, to be mounted if not gorgeously at least attractively and, making a reservation in case...