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Word: abouts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Remote Control. Effective plays may be fashioned about Love and Death and Vanity because these are common concern of the race. So is Radio, which can cause as much turmoil as any of the other three. Consider the malefactions at Chicago's station WPH. An ominous spiritualist called Dr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 23, 1929 | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

Flight (Columbia). Daredevil marines at the airbase at Pensacola, Fla., and perfect synchronization of dialog and martial sounds make this a very exciting picture. The illusion of reality is strong when the theatre reverberates with roaring airplanes, staccato machine guns. Ralph Graves is a vacillating, blundering flyer who girds up...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Sep. 23, 1929 | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

Three Loves (Moviegraph) is the ac- count of a well-curved siren who made life obnoxious for three men. When an elderly lover had eliminated her husband, she bewitched a youth who was about to depart on his honeymoon. In the midst of New Year's revels he tried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Sep. 23, 1929 | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

The Great Gabbo (Sono-Art) As a ventriloquist in silk stockings and a dinner shirt, Erich von Stroheim keeps his round, bristle-covered head unbowed under bludgeonings written for him by Ben Hecht. He is in love with the girl who helps him in his act. Off stage he cannot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Sep. 23, 1929 | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

When Erich von Stroheim first turned up in Hollywood, a polite, conceited fellow in high collars and without hair, he gained attention over other European adventurers looking for a fortune in the movies because he knew something about military etiquette. He had been to a cadet school in Austria, had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Sep. 23, 1929 | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

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