Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...amused. But he has not done it as well as it has been done many times before. He has also chosen to have his characters release certain ponderous sayings from time to time, to keep the play out of the pure comedy class. These dicta are sound but not better said than countless others have said them. In other words, "Caprice" while an amusing play is one which falls considerably short of being worthy stuff either as parlor comedy or as straight social problem drama...
...peer of all spectacle sponsors, the paramount figure of America's entertainment impresarios, the amazingly adroit F. Ziegfeld. ... It is swift, sure and steadily sparkling. It is better described as one of the grandest things Mr. Ziegfeld has ever done. He is truly a great man, this Ziegfeld. This [reviewer] . . . kneels at his toes and thanks him for having had a superb evening. . . ."-Walter Winchell, in the Evening Graphic...
...Petroleum Institute sessions there was talk of choosing for president a famed person outside the industry. General John Pershing, Charles Evans Hughes and President Coolidge were mentioned for the position. It was finally concluded, however, that in the present unsettled condition of the industry it would be better to forego the glory of a great name and select a man well acquainted with petroleum problems. So Edwin Benjamin Reeser, of Oklahoma, president of the Barnsdall Corp., was elected.* Mr. Reeser lives in Tulsa; whenever he visits his Manhattan offices he shakes the hand of every member of his staff...
Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr. of Manhattan etc. is not to be confused with Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Sr. who lives in Philadelphia still, guarding jealously the Biddle fame and fortune, both of which were founded by Nicholas Biddle just after the Revolutionary War. Biddle Sr. was once a better boxer than his son; he allowed his proficiency to lead him to a pursuit which he called Athletic Christianity and which he preached around the world...
...George Fitzmaurice directs intelligently and movingly the consequences of a circus-man's proud affection for his son and his fear that circusing will spoil the boy's chance of amounting to something. Highly admired as a stageplay two seasons ago, the story by Kenyon Nicholson is better than most screen-stories; and Milton Sills, the barker, is convincing even when he chokes his girl friend (Betty Compson) for contriving the seduction of his son by one of the carnival ladies (Dorothy Mackaill). Out of the sound device comes barker-lingo; Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (the barker...