Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are two kinds of political pictures. Photographs are used to popularize. The camera shows the candidates at their best. The negatives are usually touched up to show better than best...
Notable on the Democratic side there are, besides Rollin Kirby, Cartoonists Edmund Duffy of the Baltimore Sun and Nelson Harding of the Brooklyn Eagle. But the Duffy vein is too broad to rank high and the Harding execution has been better than the Harding ideas...
None knows better than Publisher Hearst the power of the pictured word. He also employs Cartoonist James ("Jimmie") Swinnerton, who pictures Tammany as a little tiger-yegg with a slouch cap; Cartoonist Frederick Burr Opper, of "Happy Hooligan" fame, who pictures Tammany as an old-man-of-the-sea on the donkey's back; Cartoonist Windsor McCay, nightmare man, creator of "Little Nemo," who illustrates the Hearst Sunday supplements with shuddersome, anti-Tammany compositions...
...would be very difficult to say in what respect an American musical play is better than a musical play which is not American. Also it would be useless; Mr. Cohan and the formula have made each other famous and it will require more than death to part them. It is true that the indigenous qualities of Billie happen often to be its most appealing ones; there is a scene in which two idiotic rogues confer together, making monkeys of themselves and many others. Songs and dances are in Billie also; of the former not the least engaging is one which...
...laggards are the press agents of Clara Bow. For better or worse they have affixed to her the appositive name, "The It Girl," and the connotation to that title means to collegians, railway clerks, farm boys that Clara Bow is the personification of sex appeal. But Miss Bow also has histrionic ability. Some measure of praise is due her in this piece, in which she is the mercenary mink who works as a professional partner in a dancehall. Like the heroine in that play called Night Hostess, she maintains a nominal chastity?"she walks home alone"?but teases sailors...