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...Grace Mailhouse Burnham, attractive at 37, considered herself capable of being a better-than-average mother. Her husband, a retired distiller associated with the soap firm of B. T. Babbitt in Manhattan, died four years ago leaving her childless. Quietly she selected "a young man of good family and good character with the proper eugenic background'' to be the father of her child. "There was nothing which approached promiscuity" in their relationship, she said. The young man, after performing his function as eugenic husband, quietly stepped out of her life. A fortnight ago at the Lying-in Hospital...
Blossom Seeley as "Roxie" of Chicago is the "sex appeal" of the production. Vividly blond, with a Tanguay voice, and costumes to match, she is the most contagious if not the stellar light of the edition. Miss Grace Brinkley in the lead is very beautiful and very dumb. As an ingenue Laura Lee she manages to hold down her end of the flighty show rather well. As for the males in the cast, no one but Dr. George Rockwell was enabled or deserved to occupy the spotlight unduly long. After much perserverance he managed to exhaust the resistance...
...Fortune Hunter. Funnyman Syd Chaplin is never nearly so funny as his famed brother. What with his wide grin and his rapid trotting motion, he seldom cuts a solemn figure on the screen. Herein, first trying to marry a rich beautiful girl for money he is aided by the grace, charm and beauty of Helene Costello (sister to the famed Dolores). Later, trying to marry a poor, blonde girl for love, he is obstructed by Clara Horton, a horrible ingenue...
Robust burlesque maidens and gentlemen in baggy trousers have been marching across U. S. stages these many years; marching, singing, telling jokes. Among them have been such major artists as Jim Barton, Clark and McCullough, Fanny Brice, the late Bert Williams, Belle Baker, Weber and Fields, David Warfield, Grace La Rue. Often the jokes have been off color; often the robust maidens have been elaborately exposed, so often that burlesque is often considered a rowdy industry. Sam A. Scribner, onetime circus man, fighting for years against unsavory shows, brought his Columbia wheel to a point of considerable respectability. In spite...
Moreover, the book is written with not a little grace and skill and discrimination. As a study of manners and morals of the period, it is well worth reading. But it must always be considered not as history, so much as an overtone to history. And those who are preparing for the mid-year examination in Histoty 30a had best stick closely to their faithful Hazens...