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The Winnipeg Tribune, Manitoba, May 20, 1939
Oh, sure, we were young ourselves once… still, we like to see the show.
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The Winnipeg Tribune, Manitoba, May 20, 1939
Oh, sure, we were young ourselves once… still, we like to see the show.
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Valuskis Theater, Willowbrook, California, 1951
Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, Hollywood, 1951
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The Daily Republican,
Monongahela, Pennsylvania, October 28, 1942
A chiller-diller that will make your hair stand!
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Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, Hollywood, 1951
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The Decatur Daily Review, Illinois, May 17, 1936
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The Leavenworth Post, Kansas, May 7, 1910
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New Castle Herald, Pennsylvania, March 1, 1924
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The New York Age, New York, August 31, 1911
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, October 18, 1896
The Relative Parts of Beauty.
The Secret of Perennial Youth.
The Religion of Beauty.
The Sin of Ugliness.
The Training of the Expression.
The Yielding Tendencies of the Face and Form.
Age No Enemy to Beauty.
How to walk correctly.
Breathing exercises for strengthening the lungs, developing the chest and all other parts of the body.
How to reduce the abdomen.
How to make flabby flesh firm.
How to remove a double chin.
How to restore the contour of the face and neck.
How to remove wrinkles.
How to fill out sunken cheeks and hollow eyes.
How to shape the mouth.
How to strengthen the eyes and make them bright and sparkling.
How to cure deafness.
How to make the arms round and plum and reduce them if too stout.
How to increase flesh or reduce it.
How to make the complexion perfect.
How to remove and permanently cure all skin diseases and blemishes.
How to make hands artistic, plump, white and tapering.
How to make the neck perfect and develop the bust.
How to cultivate beautiful eyebrows and lashes.
How to cultivate luxuriant hair and restore its natural color.
How to look young, although old.
How to win a husband and hold his love.
Madame Yale’s lectures were basically big long sales pitches for her products: lip salves, “fertilizer” (for constipation), “fruitcura” (for “female weakness”) shampoos, tooth powder, eyelash grower, blood tonics, mole and wart extractors, pimple cures, freckle removers, complexion bleaches and hand whiteners, face enamel, eyebrow pencils, face powder (in brunette, white and flesh), liquid rouge, and “bust food”.
Santa Cruz Weekly Sentinel, California, December 7, 1907
Goldsboro Weekly Argus, North Carolina, March 8, 1900
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Psychoanalysis and Love, André Tridon, 1922
The wave of homosexualism which has followed the war is probably responsible for the growing numbers of naked male actors and dancers who disport themselves nowadays on the French stage and elsewhere.
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The Wichita Beacon, Kansas, September 14, 1921
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Capitol Theatre, Vancouver, 1943