Word: mannering
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...takes a Frenchman to make a lady of Venus. Author de Miomandre does it, in much the same way that Author John Erskine refurbished the reputation of Helen of Troy. In a politely gossipy conversational manner which suits the Frenchman better than it did the U. S. professor. Author de Miomandre gives as complete as possible a biography of Venus: in her peculiar case her biography is the history of her love life...
...supported by a host of supernumeraries, but they produce all these voices themselves, including that of an occasional dog. So intimately concerned do their audiences become with the careers of Amos 'n' Andy that letters arrive each day expressing hopes or fears for their enterprises, warnings, all manner of comment...
...carried properties and costumes around the country in innumerable trunks. In 1924 they were made office managers of the company, took a Chicago apartment. For fun they obtained a radio tryout without pay. This led to regular engagements. First they sang songs, told stories; gradually they evolved their blackface manner. Gosden taught Correll the dialect; for a while they were known as Sam 'n' Henry. In March 1928, they first performed as Amos 'n' Andy...
Pridefully Advertisers & Advertising Agents pointed to its original subscribers. Among famed publicists to whom the magazine is to appeal, in much the same manner as a club bulletin, are: Bruce Barton, Roy S. Durstine, William Hart, Adam Kessler Jr., H. K. McCann, Frank Presbrey, Stanley Resor...
This is a mystery story in the modern, Osbert-Sitwellian manner: besides the mystery it contains much acute and polished conversation on morals, literature, life; a complete satirical sketch of tourists shut up together on a liner; criticisms of art and nature; and what might almost serve as a guidebook to Granada, Spanish setting of the famed Moorish Alhambra...