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...this novel enmeshed himself in the Bohemian bedlam of Greenwich Village. There he met two women. Rita was a poetess, incandescent, fitful, tender. They read poetry in Rita's squalid little room until many dawns. But she did not return his love, and when she left the city he sought out Daisy...
...Jason had been a long baby, and had grown to six feet before he was eighteen. He was beyond that now, and so ashamed of it that he would never let himself be measured. ... But Rita [his sister] . . was all head. Her head had grown in and on to such bulk as only a giant could uphold, yet her body and her members were hardly larger than an infant's." Rita had a soul of "spiritual perfectness." To amuse Rita, Jason brings a trained seal from the nearby carnival. The seal's owner comes, too-Zarna, Diving Venus...
Married. Gladys Glad, 21, "highest paid" showgirl (Whoopee, Rosalie, Rio Rita, No Foolin'); to Mark Hellinger, 31, newspaperman; in Manhattan. To a fellow newsman Mr. Hellinger wired: "When we get back from Hollywood you must come over and meet the wife?but not too often...
...first feature Radio picture, Street Girl, with Betty Compson, was given a private showing in Manhattan last week. Meanwhile, Rio Rita, the Ziegfeld musical comedy, was made into cinemusic in Radio's Hollywood studio. Radio has $50,000,000 to put into pictures this year...
...former star of Rio Rita is so clever with her nimble dance steps that by the time she comes out for her third encore, the house is hers, the song about her boy friend's "shushpenders," and her dance "Subway Shuffle," completely captivating the audience. As for Miss Foster, we are forced to admit that her playlet is rather crude, but her acting, plus her dark hair and bright eyes--well it was a good...