Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fenway--"Gold Diggers of Broadway...
Reginald Owen makes an ingratiating Prince, and Betty Schuster's Baroness is among Broadway's handsomer sights. One would like to know whether Author Geyer or Translator Wodehouse is responsible for Mr. Howard's mot in the second act. When the Prince inquires what sort of women are customarily available to valets. he replies: "A cook, a lady's maid, and possibly a governess-at Christmas...
Ladies Leave. Sophie Treadwell. who last season contributed Machinal to Broadway's annals of despair, returns this year with a glancing comedy of love in the psychoanalysis belt. A Viennese practitioner of that science prescribes adultery for the wife of a boorish editor. His nostrum proves rather unpalatable, for the lover she chooses is too torrid for a woman acclimated to a temperate zone. Then too, her husband is rather unpleasant about the liaison, so she finally dashes off to Austria with the doctor. Walter Connolly is excellent as the smug, foolish husband, but Henry Hull's persistently...
...stage in Milwaukee and St. Louis, she was suspended for two seasons, fined two weeks' salary (some $3,600) by Actor's Equity. After the suspension she turned to cinema, appeared in Man, Woman & Sin, The Letter, Jealousy. Her suspension suspended, she had planned to reappear on Broadway before Christmas...
...Lucky Strikes, Ponds Cold Cream. The advertising advertised her as well as the products so that in 1927 she was able to sell Liberty a story called "What's the Matter with American Men?" which lauded foreign bachelors. Her career also includes going to night clubs, attending Broadway openings, working for Saks Fifth Avenue, Manhattan smartmart and such odd jobs as chaperoning Aviatrix Ruth Elder, to whom she introduced her curious and well-bred friends. Sad though her story might be to a gum-chewing public, Miss Oelrichs has declared that she enjoys her life, including the moneymaking...