Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...game of boys playing Indians in a thicket. There is a real War going on across the Channel, but that is a soldiers' affair. In the warrens of Whitehall there is the war of the ministries and the boys who have played it for years are annoyed at having to let newcomers-the "mushroom" ministers-participate. Least of all are they pleased to admit Sam Raingo. His wealth and his familiarity with Andy Clyth are against him. Andy having been obliged to bring Sam into the game, would not teach him the rules even if he could afford...
...Donovan Affair-Jewels, darkness, murder, police...
...Couldn't Say No-Florence Moore slaps a sluggish affair into a smart success...
...Family" is a comedy, a straightforward he-man affair, with no subtlety, no Arlenesque sophistication. The players all say what they mean, and they inflect their voices in such a manner that there can be no possible doubt about the words meaning just what they do in the dictionary. And the acting is much of the same variety. Every motion that is made says to the audience "Let me explain" and there is never a good line spoken but what the whole cast violently signals to the audience "Get ready to laugh. One-two-threee...
...Gods (Thomas Meighan, Renée Adorée). Tom Meighan, disappointed in a careering U. S. wife, takes to building a bridge in South America. In this task he is inspired by Renee Adoree as a reformed dancing girl. Develops a love affair with the bridge casually suggested in the background. Reenters Friend Wife and Tom agrees to go back to the U. S. Renee, seeing in this the ruin of her love, jumps to death from the bridge- which is regretted, because Tom was only going back to get a divorce, and everyone is sorry to see Renee...