Word: ago
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sometime ago Equity President Frank Gillmore declared that members signing non-Equity contracts after June 5 would be suspended. Many a player paid no attention, signed such a contract. Among them was Tully Marshall, long-faced character actor...
Dangerous Curves (Paramount). It would not be fair to apply the term stale to this story about a circus performer who loses his skill when his female partner breaks up the team. Long ago it passed from being simply stale to an honorable status as one of the great stencils of picturemaking. Long research has proved that there are two ways in which the shaken fellow can be redeemed: 1) by the return of his original partner; 2) by another girl in the company who has loved him all the time but whose sacrifices have never been appreciated until...
...face and voice, Raquel Meller acts like a phantom for the camera's phantom audience. Her gestures are uncertain and stylized, yet she does not seem to be a phantom of herself but of some other actress, perhaps Bernhardt, perhaps Duse. Bernhardt made a cinema 17 years ago that was a good deal like this.* It was a costume drama too, and even with the experimental craftsmanship of the time hardly more sketchy and grandiloquent than The Oppressed, where the daughter of the Spanish High Constable to the Netherlands is in love with the leader of the oppressed Flemings...
Although he died seven years ago (November 1922), Author Proust's seven-part novel Remembrance of Things Past has not yet been completely published in English. Of that super-novel, The Captive is Part Five, a novel in itself. Published currently, its story is as follows...
...about 25% perfect (.250 in the tabulations). Today an average of .285 is only fair. About 116 batters in the two Big Leagues have surpassed .300 this year, with several of them up around .400.* A good average score used to be 4 runs to 3. A few weeks ago the St. Louis Nationals in a game with the Philadelphia Nationals made 10 runs in the first inning, 10 more in the fifth, 25 in the game. Pitcher Burleigh Grimes of the Pittsburgh club says: "I used to figure on allowing two runs and winning. Now I figure on allowing...