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October 23, 1943

Poetry

Seasonal [ABSTRACT] 
With cooler days, you must allow…
by Richard Armour

March 16, 1940

Comment

Comment. [ABSTRACT] 
Every now and then we hear from a Broadway or Hollywood columnist that the vogue of the tall glamour girl is definitely on the wane and the star of the short, neat, package is ascendant. These are fine tidings for those of us this side of Gary Cooper. We are…
by Wolcott Gibbs by Edward Newhouse

March 13, 1937

Fiction

King Of The Philistines [ABSTRACT] 
A young show girl in a strange town, without a job, hungry, makes friends with a young bartender…
by Kay Boyle

April 06, 1935

Fiction

I Could Have Had A Yacht [ABSTRACT] 
A beautiful, but dumb, chorus girl is being dated by a musician who amazes her with his "crypty" remarks…
by John O'Hara

September 08, 1934

Fiction

My Own, My Native Land; Visiting Girl [ABSTRACT] 
A girl who is visiting in town snatches away another girl's man by looking very exotic. The jilted girl, in turn goes to visit another town and catches herself a very eligible man by the same exotic technique…
by Thyra Samter Winslow

March 10, 1934

Fiction

Pleasure [ABSTRACT] 
The dreary life of a girl who worked in a cafeteria…
by John O'Hara

January 17, 1931

Dance

Rehearsal [ABSTRACT] 
Tells of man who waits for Mina, a chorus girl during the rehearsal of the show. The dance director keeps them on the go all the while, and then tells them to get their wigs for the special Sunshine number, etc. and be back by seven. It is six o'clock…
by T. H. Wenning

May 11, 1929

Fiction

Butterfly [ABSTRACT] 
She was in the chorus of a revue. Blake brought her up to my studio one day. She was never still a minute. She walked all around the dirty little place and asked questions. "What do you call that color?" "How do you make a shadow like that?" "Does it…
by Mary C. McCall

March 02, 1929

Fiction

Gentleman downtown [ABSTRACT] 
The Gentleman Downtown was very proud of Peggy. He sent her orchids daily, gave her a weekly allowance, called Wednesdays and Saturdays at the stagedoor of the New Amsterdam Theatre, and made out a monthly checque to "Cash" which paid expenses…
by Arthur Kober

October 06, 1928

Fiction

Audition [ABSTRACT] 
Try-outs for chorus-girls. Monologue…
by Arthur Kober

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