Word: stencils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they can bombastic lines shopworn 'by ten years of theatrical use. Miss Ralston is beautiful and a good actress. Dix is handsome but doesn't fit his part. Silliest shot: a horrible painting of the late Lord Kitchener indicated as a suggestion for transmitting Kitchener's stencil "Carry on" to Actress Ralston after her attempted jump. Like many contemporary film people, Esther Ralston took her first part as a stage baby. She and her parents, May Howard and Henry Walter Ralston, were routed over vaudeville circuits as "The Ralston Family, Metropolitan Entertainers." She went to school...
When Admiral Lord Nelson created by his heroic death a stencil for millions of Victorian lithographs, he is said also to have left desolate the most beautiful woman of his time. Lady Hamilton's white face and big eyes, painted by Romney and Gainsborough, were so widely admired that her elderly husband investigated no rumored infidelities "for fear they might be true." When Nelson left her to save his country, he asked her to sing for him once more−and there now is heard, apparently issuing from the lips of Corinne Griffith, "You'll Take the High...
...their start much the same way; many of them show up again in their home towns after a few months with nothing to show for their trip except a new suit and a phrase, "When I was in the big leagues. . . ." But though Hornsby's beginning was a stencil his career from that time on was not. He played shortstop, then second base; he batted well. He made an enemy, Bill Hinchman, Pittsburgher, and came near fighting with him every time he saw him; he made many friends, some of them newspapermen who spread his name across their pages...
Circe the Enchantress. Mae Murray has only one point in life after all, and that is to wear gowns. Certainly she is not an actress. Certainly the story, even if Ibanez did write it specially for her, is the worn-out stencil of the wild woman fascinating the solemn, godly hero. Anyway, Mae Murray wears gowns...
...book Indian blood is still strong will doubtless approve of Pioneer Trails. A masterly massacre is accomplished, in which a convoy of prairie schooners with their entire personnel, is wiped out. One small child escapes, to reappear 20 years later as the hero. Thereafter, the plot is simply a stencil, cut with the old familiar tools...