She goes out on a date with him, much to the annoyance of " sob sister " reporter Allison ( Alice White ), who makes it quite clear that she wants Danny too, though she is Al's girlfriend.
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Ipswich, Speed and Herbert want her to choose someone else, but when " sob sister " reporter Elmerada de Leon ( ZaSu Pitts ) comes to interview Glory, she spots the photo, so they have to play along.
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Anna Quindlen turns forty ( " Things are somehow settled . . . " ); Bob Greene gibbers on about his high school reunion; some sob sister has a baby _ ( itals ) who cares ( unitals )?
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Anna Quindlen turns forty ( " Things are somehow settled . . . " ); Bill Greene gibbers on about his high school reunion; some sob sister has a baby _ ( itals ) who cares ( unitals )?
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Tom McGowan and R . Bean ( who does florid wonders with vocal embroidery ), in the respective roles of Roxie's hapless husband and a saccharine sob sister, are appropriately antithetical as the most real and unreal characters in the production.
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She was also called the " Queen of the Sob Sisters ", " sob sister " being a term used in the early 20th century for female reporters who wrote sentimental human interest stories designed to evoke an emotional response from female readers.
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She was also called the " Queen of the Sob Sisters ", " sob sister " being a term used in the early 20th century for female reporters who wrote sentimental human interest stories designed to evoke an emotional response from female readers.
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Lederer, who became Ann Landers in 1955, avoided the quavering prose and Victorian euphemism of an earlier generation of newspaper sob sisters in favor of hard-nosed, often witty, discussion of contemporary woes that, as she liked to say, " would twirl your turban ."
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For as Brooks Atkinson wrote in The New York Times : " ` Chicago'is not a melodrama . . . but a satirical comedy on the administration of justice through the fetid channels of newspaper publicity _ of photographers, ` sob sisters,'feature stunts, standardized prevarication and generalized vulgarity ."
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Alice Rix, known for a particular brand of " sob sister " journalism ( along with Nellie Bly and Dorothy Dix ), claimed that when she viewed the film at the Olympia Theatre, she counted only sixty women in an audience of a thousand, and found the dress circle empty.
