Word: abouting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Is Everybody Happy? (Warner). One of the most popular acts of stage orchestras used to consist in the leader telling the audience that he was going to play a classical piece and a jazz piece and asking everybody to show by the way they clapped which one they liked best...
Tall, good-looking, social, Bishop-elect Robbins has no worries about an old-age pension or about living on the salary of a Bishop-Coadjutor ($7,500). About the time he resigned his deanship last spring he was left by a bachelor uncle a legacy of $1,100,000.
On the first bill was a sound picture, made as an experiment by the Philadelphia Police Department, of a murderer, one William E. Peters, confessing his crime. With a tired, unshaven face and worn, disordered clothes pulled and stretched by fierce handling in the patrol wagon, Peters told slowly about...
Condemned (Goldwyn). There is hardly a scene in this that is not well photographed and Ronald Coleman and Ann Harding act as well as you would expect. Unfortunately, the charm that the director has taken such pains to put into Condemned is wasted because it is inappropriate. Proper picturization of...
Last week the damage suit of another onetime employe against the company was about to reach trial. Mrs. Ethelwynne Metz of Newark claimed $200,000 personal damages. Her husband wanted $50,000 for loss of her services. Moreover, Mrs. Metz's doctor, Ames Lawrence Filiponne of Newark, last week...