Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Whiting, his successor) was published last week. Last commercial survey by the man who made the Commerce Department famous, it covered fiscaf 1928, which ended June 30, just after Mr. Hoover was nominated and before his resignation was accepted. It sounded very familiar, being largely a replica of its author's campaign speech. "Fiscal 1928," said Mr. Hoover, "had continued the high economic activity which has become characteristic of American industry." He cited the Mississippi flood, the cotton depression, and a temporary abeyance of motor-making (Ford's style change), as the causes of a recession of indices...
Holiday. Among the most nostalgic of musical instruments are those tinkling boxes which the members of the present generation heard in their nurseries and can never hear again without experiencing some intense and hungry emotion. By causing one of these primitive gramophones to bray gently from deep stage, Author Philip Barry suddenly twists the mood of Holiday from one of gaiety to one of longing...
...Lady Lies. To make a play exciting, there is the principle of the tug-of-war. Author John Meehan presents a hero who is a prosperous lawyer. The lawyer is a widower; he has a mistress, three children and the intention of marrying a young lady from the Social Register...
...nothing. The children and the mistress fight with each other for the lawyer. Why the children are not spanked by their father and told to stay at home is not explained. Instead they invade the mistress' apartment or ask her in ill-bred fashion to visit theirs. Somehow, Author Meehan makes their bad behavior seem excusable so that the audience hopes that both mistress and children will get the lawyer. Owing to the skilled advices of a friend of the mistress, both do. William Boyd, once Quirt in What Price Glory, is the bone of contention...
...Masks of the Devil. Author Henry James in parentheses, Playwright Eugene O'Neill in asides, made their characters utter their real thoughts during conventional dialog, a device awkward in fiction or on the stage but natural and effective in the many pictures which have contained hints of it. Used here to great extent, the trick adds interest to Jacob Wassermann's short story about the Baron (John Gilbert) who has the face of an archangel, the soul of a devil, and a lust for the fiancee (Eva Von Berne) of his friend. In an effort to live...