Word: act
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...general treaty for the renunciation of war (Kellogg Pact) (see p. 9) as a shield to cover up the high-handed fashion in which, last fortnight, they booted out of China the entire Russian personnel of the Chinese Eastern Railway (see map). The expulsion was clearly not "an act of war" in the technical military sense (though it was a deadly blow at the Far Eastern commerce of Russia). Consequently, argued the Chinese Foreign Office, last week, China did not violate the Kellogg Pact in ousting the Russians, but if Moscow should take military steps to avenge their expulsion then...
...prevent war as soon as shots have actually been fired by one of the adversaries, major interest centred last week on numerous border skirmishes, incessantly rumored to be taking place along the Chino-Russian frontier. The moment such a skirmish assumed sufficiently bloody proportions to be called an "overt act," it might serve as the tinder spark of war. Soon across the barrier of censorship, lies vast and uncharted distances, came a loud Chinese accusation. The Governor-Dictator of Manchuria, Marshal Chang Hsueh-Liang, officially charged that Red troops had attacked Chinese frontier guards not far from Pogro-nichnaya...
...first act of Broadway Nights a group of tinted chorines dance before a mammoth synthetic rosebush. In the second act the celebration is repeated for orchids. The cast is headed by Odette Myrtil, a rough-voiced Parisienne who makes pantherlike glides around the stage while playing cardiac tunes on her violin. This combination of music and motion is popular, but by any comparative standard the name of Laura Lee, the show's small, vivacious song-plugger, should also be featured...
...drunk, she takes his place on the tightrope. Dangerous Curves employs Solution No. 2. Clara Bow gets the kiss in the fadeout. She is a better actress than her usual It-girl role would lead you to expect, but in most of her scenes she is not trying to act so much as to suggest, rather over-consciously, how "cute" she is. Best shot: Kay Francis in front of a bedroom door...
Twin Beds (First National). Comedian Jack Mulhall, who used to act only with Dorothy Mackaill, herein plays opposite Patsy Ruth Miller, supported by a good cast. The story is one of those anecdotes generally used as a framework for the less profitable shows of minor burlesque circuits. Miss Miller's frustrated ambition to sleep in a bed beside her husband's on her wedding night might have been funny in spite of everything but for the dialog-line after awkward line recited in singsong and divided from the next by little fences of silence. Twin Beds is partially...