Word: actress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week Critic Swaffer of the London Sunday Express (circulation 538,889) sat at lunch in the Savoy grill, crowded with Londoners eating solid, expensive food. Up to his table stalked Actress Lillian Foster, U. S. star of Conscience, just opened in London...
...Patchwork Madonna", Mr. Weston makes use of two central characters, a psycho-analyst and his patient, the London actress, Creda Reid. The chapters consist of the progressive consultations in the treatment of her case. And since the actress is indeed a pretty well tattered madonna, a certain amount of interest is attached to her explanations of the origins of her hates and loves. She is described as tall, supple, and of "almost tigerish strength." When we add that she speaks in a husky voice and uses tangerine perfume, any reader familiar with One-a-minute-Oppenheim can visualize the type...
...Buenos Aires a company of nine actors supporting Florencio Parravicini, famed Argentine comedian, were playing a comedy. Included in the cast was a parrot who took the part of a sailor's pet. One by one the company sickened. An actor and an actress died. Alarmed physicians were at a loss for a diagnosis. The symtoms were simple: nausea, constipation, a fever preceded by a chill. Then the parrot too lost appetite, moulted, became diarrhetic, died. The doctors examined him, pronounced his death due to psittachosis-parrot-disease. They warned parrot-owners that this infection would kill their pets...
Engaged. Lita Grey Chaplin, musicomedy actress, onetime wife of Cineman Charles Spencer Chaplin; and Phil Baker, accordion-playing funnyman; at Milwaukee...
...There are on the stage now a number of players who have one or the other of these qualities, but the number of those who possess both is small. But when you get an actress who has both-well, she is an actress...