Word: showgirl
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Author Hergesheimer is repeatedly accused of vulgarity, never of slack workmanship. Hot color, detail as meticulously perfect as a showgirl's makeup, are his special contribution to serious letters. Sometimes a deep pulse of life makes itself felt, sometimes an incomparable atmosphere passes over the hard surfaces, as in Java Head and The Three Black Pennys. But mostly, labor faithfully though he obviously does, Author Hergesheimer remains a short-range camera, loaded with a thick film. "No Grifolifes...
...Late wife (she died in 1921) of Alexander Pollock Moore, present U. S. Ambassador to Spain (See SPAIN, Page 16) whom she married in 1912. Famed showgirl, early exponent of tights, and sometime co-star with Weber and Fields, Mrs. Moore (nee Leonard, not Russell) made her last public appearance at the close of the War with Raymond Hitchcock in Hitchy...