Word: backings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Navy Curtis Dwight Wilbur decided the articles were in unbecoming taste, relieved their author of his command at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. Since then Admiral Magruder has been on full pay, but inactive. Last week Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams, after conference with the President, ordered him back to duty...
Married. Gladys Glad, 21, "highest paid" showgirl (Whoopee, Rosalie, Rio Rita, No Foolin'); to Mark Hellinger, 31, newspaperman; in Manhattan. To a fellow newsman Mr. Hellinger wired: "When we get back from Hollywood you must come over and meet the wife?but not too often...
Hats. Still mainly smooth to the head but trending to draped turbans. Small- feather trimmings. Some, adventurous, wear low wide back brims of a salty flavor, reminiscent of fishermen's waterproofs...
...frequency pictures which assume sophistication in the audience. Only a few of the time-honored tenets of cine-morality are now retained, but these unshakably. In this picture, Clive Brook, as Ruth Chatterton's husband, can be definitely unfaithful to her, but Miss Chatterton after winning him back cannot take her revenge by going to Italy with another fellow as Ethel Barrymore did when she acted in this play (The Constant Wife) on the stage. Miss Chatterton goes away, but she only pretends to have somebody with her. Her tentative paramour gets off the train as it is leaving...
...Back in 1914 when U. S. War-Correspondent Richard Harding Davis looked out of his Brussels hotel window to find the streets flowing with the quiet grey river of General von Bissing's soldiery, Belgian banks were seized, Belgian gold and money were removed from the vaults, German paper marks planted in their place. In 1918, with the fall of Imperial Germany, these marks became worthless. All through the long meetings of the Second Dawes Commission this year, peppery Emile Franqui, chief of the Belgian delegation, insistently demanded that redemption of the worthless marks be included in the Young...