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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Welcome Danger (Paramount). Like all Harold Lloyd's comedies, this is built around a character fundamentally sensible and likable but who seems crazy because of some predominant trait or mania. Botany is the current mania and the character is a police chief's son who, asked to help out on the force because the present captain thinks he might be a chip off the old block, gets interested in fingerprints when he finds that they are like leaves- no two alike. Lloyd took six months making Welcome Danger as a silent film, then made it over again putting...
...continued to clamor for London, the Latins remained violently opposed. The delegates were also stumped to find an adequate authority for setting up the B. I. S. at all. Perhaps it would require a multilateral treaty among all the Powers concerned, and that would mean finding a weasel way around the expected unwillingness of the U. S. to sign. Questions involving the minor powers and personnel of the B. I. S. proved additional stumpers. Even hustling, driving Chairman Jackson Eli Reynolds opined that the bankers' work would be finished barely in time to be submitted to the politicians...
Convicted owner-drivers will be placed by the police in public stocks for 30 minutes. Convicted chauffeurs will have their hands trussed behind them, will wear a sandwichman's placard setting forth their infamy, will be marched around the principal streets of Bucharest by constables for one hour. In addition, both drivers and chauffeurs will be liable to the usual fines, imprisonments...
...Coward will open "Bitter-Sweet" in New York City the first week of November. Then he will travel around the world until next May when he expects to return to New York to play in a new production...
...experiments. It is a contrast which throws two concepts of the university into clear relief. The class has long been the medium through which Yale reached her sons; perhaps, then, it was to be expected that the House Plan in New Haven would follow tradition and develop around the class and not, as at Harvard, through the college itself...