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Annie takes up the torch of Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst after Cork burns down her schoolhouse. Eager to bring Cork to trial, she discovers that women can't serve on the jury because they haven't the right to vote. Annie heads for Cheyenne and the legislature to change all that. Her fervor kindles the latent womanhood of a jaded cabaret queen, Elsie (Gladys George). It is no trick for Elsie and her chorus of fancy dollies, who are on kissing-cousin terms with the legislature, to get Annie's bill for woman suffrage introduced. Annie does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Apr. 21, 1941 | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

...Look (Joan Merrill; Bluebird). The torch record that is putting nickels into the nation's juke boxes. As a result, choke-making Songstress Merrill is looking toward Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Popular, Mar. 17, 1941 | 3/17/1941 | See Source »

More than 500 local Republicans marched in torch-light parades to the Rindge Technical High School auditorium last night to hear Senator Warren R. Austin of Vermont, Governor Leverett Saltonstall '14, and Senatorial candidate Henry Parkman, Jr. '15 fire their last shots in the campaign...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TORCH LIGHT PARADE LEADS TO FINAL REPUBLICAN RALLY | 11/5/1940 | See Source »

...three torch-light parades will start at 7 o'clock form Norris and Massachusetts Avenues in North Cambridge; from LaFayette Square, near Central Square, and from Concord Avenue and Alpine St. They will merge near Memorial Hall and march to the high school auditorium for the rally...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOP WILL HEAR SALTONSTALL, AUSTIN, PARKMAN AT RALLY | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

...happens that the All-American, All-Ivy backfield come to Pottawatomie as bodyguard (with strict hands-off contract) for Lucille Ball, the hardest woman to handle since Lucretia Borgia. She and Frances Langford carry the torch songs while P. U., playing against Columbia, Pitt, and even Cornell, becomes the highest team in America in points scored--for and against. Fourth Horseman Desi Arnaz, an argentine, prairie wolf, shows possibilities of becoming the greatest threat to American womanhood since the fourteen-day diet. And Harvard's quarterback, Eddie Bracken, (who knocked down more passes in 1939 than any American except Ginger...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 10/25/1940 | See Source »

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