Word: showgirl
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. George Herman ("Babe") Ruth of Manhattan, potent baseballer (New York Yankees) and Mrs. Claire Hodgson, widowed showgirl; in Manhattan, at 5:45 a. m. The first Mrs. Ruth, long estranged from her husband and living with a dentist of Watertown, Mass., was recently burned to death (TIME...
...Metro Goldwyn Mayer). Once more the unity of time and scene and the concentration of dialog made possible by a courtroom play have been utilized in an effective sound-picture. The story, adapted without alteration from a recent stage success, and directed by the author, Bayard Veiller, concerns a showgirl, who is tried for the murder of her lover and is defended by her brother, a lawyer. Best shot?Norma Shearer telling how she paid for her brother's education...
...large cast two members stand out: Nydia Westman, as a flip but honest showgirl, and Clyde Dilson, as a suave but unpleasant Chicago gunman. There is also a knife-thrower who knows his business and a bucking broncho that isn't afraid of a first-night audience...
...Texas rookie who is always being kidded because he has no nerve with girls. When a Manhattan policeman stops a Rolls-Royce and tells the chauffeur to take the soldier to the ferry, the Texan, in the tonneau, finds that his big feet encounter the slippers of an attractive showgirl. He brags to his friends about his date and writes for the girl's picture which he pins over his bunk. The complications resulting from his bluff are worked out so skillfully and with so little sentimentality that the people seem real and the situation funny and convincing...
Skinner's Big Idea. Three loyal dotards had to be fired. Skinner (Bryant Washburn), young, newly elected member of the firm had to discharge them as his first duty. Instead he imported a stenographer, peppy, once a showgirl (Martha Sleeper). Stimulated, the dotards grew chipper, chirrupy. One bought a toupeé, all bought brassies. Skinner's big fresh idea results in the retention of dotards; in a picture feeble, mild as goose milk...