Word: orchid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Michigan City, Ind., Tom Gibbons, St. Paul heavyweight, won a popular decision from Georges Carpentier, French "orchid man," in a ten-round no-decision boxing bout. Carpentier, at 173 1/2, was 5 1/2 pounds heavier than when he lost to Dempsey three years ago. "I'm ready," said he before the fight. "Ready and confident. You say to me, 'Can I win?' I say to you, 'How can I lose ?'" François Descamps. Carpentier's manager, corroborated this. "After 16 years he looks better than he ever looked before. And I mean that...
...Majestic (White Star) : Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, President of the National Woman's Party; Georges Carpentier, "gorgeous orchid man," and his manager Francois Descamps; Gilbert Miller, head of Charles Frohman, Inc., who brought several new plays including The Roman Feast by Ferenc Molnar, author of The Swan, The High "C" by Ernest Vajda, author of Fata Morgana; Miss Teddy Gerard, vaudeville actress who has been in England for several years...
More prominent among the exhibitions are: Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, a rose, by F. R. Pierson of Tarrytown, N. Y.; Sensation, by C. H. Totty; The Mary Pickford, an orchid by Joseph Manda, of West Orange, N. J. Mrs. Mortimer J. Fox was awarded a special gold medal for her lilies...
...revue. The bright spots include Peggy and Cortez' exceptional dancing, a low-comedy picnic -Keep Off the Grass, Collier and Bernard as Mr. and Mrs. Davidson in a burlesque of Rain* But the funniest thing in the show is a would-be serious ballet dealing with an Orchid, a Flame and Two Butterflies. This would furnish a likely subject for a W. E. Hill cartoon...
...aforementioned, was Mrs. Peggy Hopkins Joyce. Mrs. Joyce is not a vaudeville actress. Her stage is all the world. So many of her vagaries, nuptial and otherwise, have been chronicled in the daily bulletins that Mr. Carroll evinced an unerring flash of showmanship when he picked her for his orchid. He knew that she could neither sing nor dance. Yet the world derives a curious thrill from gazing at a woman of many marriages...