Word: persons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Keith-Albee--Leatrice Joy in person...
...bedroom of the banker's wife, prompts Sir Clive Heathcote of Scotland Yard to remark: "This is the greatest case the Yard has ever known!" The acting is bad. There are, however, some splendid sets-in a convent, a castle, London's Embassy Club-by a person named Yellenti, and an equally decorative heroine named Phoebe Foster...
...convert to the doctrine of Socialism and president of a coterie of Harvard students who have embraced the same questionable policy serve to illustrate not only the enthusiasm of youth but may also indicate the lengths to which a thirst for notoriety and public notice will oftentimes carry a person of otherwise commonsense mind and motive...
Metropolitan -- "Honky-Tonk". Sophie Tucker in person. Beginning Thursday--"Fast Life" with Douglas Fairbanks...
...England town-crier cried false reports, he would be placed in a ducking stool, soused again and again to the applause of those whom he had gulled. Last week many a person in Manhattan chuckled at the thought that perhaps Town Crier Alexander (''The Great") Woollcott deserved to have his pudgy body tied to the end of some modern ducking stool and to be plunged screaming into some terrifying bath. For either Crier Woollcott had broken all rules of good town-crying and good reporting, or John Joseph Pershing had worse than weaseled...