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Originally one of vaudeville's "Willson Sisters," Mrs. Millicent Willson Hearst, mother of five sons, sumptuous hostess, (Palm Beach, California, New York, the Continent), philanthropist, landlady of smart Manhattan apartments, dabbler in English magazines (Nash's), is the daughter of Comedian George Willson, clog dancer, once famed as "George Leslie" for his Negroid dance "Mule in the Sand." now opulently retired, addicted to the stovepipe...
...cost of living, higher than almost anywhere else. This economic fact is really the basis of the White Slave traffic. Young women are promised and young women are paid for dancing, sums which would be "big money" in Europe, but in the Argentine they are so meagre that the dancer becomes the hostess and the hostess the common or uncommon daughter...
Lilies of the Field (First National). Pretty Corinne Griffith talks through her nose in her first sound-picture, playing in a manner saturated with melancholy the role of a young woman who, innocently compromised, has been divorced by her husband. She goes to work as a dancer in a roof garden show and after a while becomes the mistress of the resort's richest habitue. All daring stuff when Miss Griffith made Lilies of the Field as a silent picture, the little plot seems mild enough now, and its denouement, in which the girl marries her lover...
...Baldwin Piano Co. he in vented a quarter-tone instrument which has a second keyboard, is double the thick ness of the standard piano, has to be played from an extra high stool. He wrote music for it (North Wind, Shadows of a Cathe dral, Shadows of a Spanish Dancer) , devising a system of notation in which raised quarter tones were signified by a sharp-like figure with one vertical crossbar in stead of two, raised three quarter tones with three vertical crossbars; lowered quarter tones by flat-like figures with re versed humps, lowered three quarter tones by double...
John Maynard Keynes, author of The Economic Consequences of the Peace, famed economist, husband of onetime Russian dancer, Lydia Lopokova...