Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with Sam Harris, he built the Music Box Theatre. The profits of his first revue were $400,000. He owns a house on Long Island, writes his songs in a suite at the Ritz, Atlantic City, spends his winters in Palm Beach. Once he visited the estates of onetime Prince Louis of Battenberg?"on a slumming party...
...woman of 45, thus putting screen art above mere good looks. In her latter manifestation, she dreams herself back to her girlhood stifled by her mother-living again the romance of the Spanish-American War, learning not to cramp her own daughter's style of loving. Lewis Beach's stage play, The Square Peg, here transferred to the screen, has had some of the acrid tang carefully sponged out of it. But enough remains to vitalize this study of the ironbound mother determined to be good to her family, let the chips fall where they...
...Goose Hangs High. Another transcription of a Lewis Beach play, this picture is primarily notable for the appearance over the Hollywood horizon of Constance Bennett, daughter of Richard Bennett. She shows much promise, fertile grace and panomimic adaptability. The burden of the story is well sustained on the screen, to wit, that if you but scratch the brass of the heedless young brood of today, you'll find true gold...
About five years ago, Samuel Untermyer, famed lawyer and capitalist, purchased a 32-acre tract at Palm Beach for $75,000. Critics at the time declared the price excessively high. Lawyer Untermyer held on till recently, when he vindicated his judgment by selling out his ocean-front property for $775,000-a profit of nearly...
...Palm Beach, one John Cardegna, tennis professional, played a tennis- golf match against one A. G. Tait, golfer, used a tennis racket and ball for all strokes except putts. For 18 holes, Cardegna lobbed, .served; Tait drove, swiped, won4 up. At the conclusion of play, Cardegna's friends consoled him. Said they: "You would surely win if Tait, equipped with golf sticks, should oppose you on a tennis court...