Word: acted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Coolidge appointed a special flood commission; as nominal head of the Red Cross, issued calls for relief funds; steadfastly refused to summon special flood session of Congress; argued that the emergency would be over before Congress could act...
Illicit Farewell. News organs in Mexico City were incensed last week at the act of an overscrupulous policeman who forcibly separated one Señor G. D. de Orihuela from his wife, as they were vigorously embracing in a public place. "We were waiting for a street car," said Señora de Orihuela. "My husband was about to leave me for some time...
...heroine steals from a wealthy, extravagant friend, in order to dress so well that her husband (Lionel Atwill) will always love her. The husband suspects less tender motives. The big scene looks as if it were pitching for tragedy. But that impulse cracks in the middle of the last act, and the playwright pastes on a happy ending, including love, faith and a wholesome dose of moral retribution. Miss Brady, as usual, ably projects her emotional scenes. But she, like any other performer who would essay the role, looks ridiculous in the heaping portions of lovey-dovey that were just...
When "Poodles" Hanneford traipses on and off galumphing horses in the circus scenes, the show is lively. When George Bickel appears in the last act as a head waiter, it is partially resurrected with a few laughs...
Professor Woods will leave for Europe shortly after the adjourning of college this spring and will make his headquarters for the next-year in France. He will act in the capacity of exchange professor at the Sorbonne, and will lecture in several of the other provincial universities of France...