Word: besting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dowling. When Dowling's pal, an acrobat, is dying after a fall from a trapeze, he promises to take care of the acrobat's little boy and keeps his promise through some amusing and a number of saccharine episodes, a love affair, and recurrent Irish-tenor melodies. Best shot: the audience in the Arcadia Opera House. Best song: "Sleepy Valley...
...Hole in the Wall (Paramount). A band of crooks, recruited from the best talent of the legitimate stage, robs gullible ladies who come for messages from the dead, until one real ghost, through the mouth of brilliant Claudette Colbert, gives away the gang's secret. Best shot: a kidnaped baby on a wharf-ladder...
...When the jury decides that Edmund Lowe was the fellow who killed Warner Baxter, a young girl jumps up in the courtroom and tells what really happened. In spite of this framework, the courtroom atmosphere is pretty real and the story depends enough on character to interest its actors. Best shot: mixed bridge in the Manning's livingroom...
...that confronted Producer Carl Laemmle when, having bought the cinema rights to Miss Ferber's book, he bought also the rights to the musical comedy that Florenz Ziegfeld had made out of it. Somehow the stretched narrative had to be delayed long enough to make it vocal. The best singing is done in a prolog, related to the text only by its tunes, in which Helen Morgan, whose voice is later apparently heard issuing from the lips of Laura La Plante, sings "My Bill" and "I Can't Help Lovin' That Man." Of the progress...
...Pasteur Medal, which is awarded annually by the French Department to the best debater on a subject drawn from contemporary French politics, was first presented in 1898 by Baron Pierre de Coubertin...