Word: cinderella
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...came two weeks before the tournament started and putted round and round the Fairyland course, where every hole is named for a fairy story with little statues of the characters -gnomes, animals, little people-as hazards, direction posts, decoration. By long practice the people from Jacksonville learned to play Cinderella, to kill Red Riding Hood, to fool Little Miss Muffet. Of course, Chattanooga putters had practiced on the course a lot too, but they were rattled by competition with the outland contestants. Impulsive Chinese Grace Moy of Brooklyn arrived in her car late one evening and went right...
...thick-ankled, she is possessed of an opportunistic wit and extraordinary energy. She will be 40 in October. She was born and reared on a farm near Winnipeg, Canada. Of her early cultural advantages, she says that her mother "dedicated her to God as Hannah did Samuel; instead of Cinderella and Mother Goose, I went to sleep with Jonah and the Whale and Daniel in the Lion...
Said Author Sir James Matthew Barrie (Auld Licht Idylls, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, A Kiss for Cinderella) upon being made a Freeman of his native Kirriemuir which he immortalized as "Thrums" in A Window in Thrums (1889): "I remember once being called upon in America to speak to a women's college containing 900 girls, and I said I could not, but if they would come outside one at a time I would make 900 speeches to them...
...over doses of local color this time its the corn tassels of Iowa with a fair share of effete Eastern gawdiness. The singing by Miss Gaynor and Mr. Farrell is every way similar to their efforts in "Sunny Side Up" while the plot is just another version of Cinderella reversed or the Perfume Counter dream. But the point is that this is not Ibsen but Janet Gaynor assisted by Charles Farrell...
...Heroine (sweetly): "The story of Cinderella will never grow old, will...