Word: blackness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Routis. In Connecticut, to make draws unlikely, fights are scored by points instead of round by round. A fighter can win a maximum number of five points in each round, points for being the most aggressive, for landing the cleanest punches. In Hartford little Christopher Battalino, local boy with black curly hair, scored 75 points to 56 and won the world's featherweight championship from Windmill André Routis by holding Routis' whirling arms when he got close and hitting him when he backed away...
...like most expensively educated young men, wrote some poetry that was never published. He worked in a few pictures as an extra and showed so much ability that his father's objections to having him in the business gradually lost force. He wrote the titles for The Black Pirate, The Gaucho, and Two Lovers; he became interested in technicolor, probably the only subject of the many so casually learned on which he is recognized as a specialist. He is a fairly good athlete, taller and heavier than he looks in his pictures; in spite of his size he wants...
Star of Bengal. Novelist-Essayist Christopher Morley has already produced two oldtime dramas (After Dark, The Black Crook) on the dismal Jersey shores just across the Hudson River from Manhattan. Since their ancient modes seemed absurd to modern playgoers, these Hoboken theatricals became a fad. Audiences which were always rowdy, however fashionable, hissed the villains, cheered the heroes. Mr. Morley's latest attempt to make money exploits Joan Lowell, touted literary hoax-mistress (The Cradle of the Deep). It is a maritime melodrama, written by her husband, which permits her to maneuver in the shrouds and employ the nautical...
Yellow-haired Frances Williams sings the show's best song, Bottoms Up, in her slithering, urgent voice. To this ditty Producer White dances a strenuous routine (successor to his Charleston, Black Bottom). The carnivals of Europe have inspired huge, mechanical grotesques which loom now and then behind the players - a shaggy Beast rolls its head and eyes while Beauty pirouettes; an enormous dummy jazz band swoops and sways. Meanwhile Willie Howard talks Jewish, and the Abbott dancers from Chicago tap dance on their toes. Ousted from the bed of a married woman, a clown exclaims : "Believe...
...evening in 1895 there was revelry in the castle. Outside, the land lay sickening under black frost. A ballroom was remodeled for the party, costing thousands of pounds. The next day Robert Blatchford, in his Clarion, savagely attacked the hostess and her guests for making merry at so desolate a time. Frances went to London indignant, returned thoroughly Blatchfordized. Since then she has established eleemosynary institutions on her estates (Crippled Children's Home, Needlework School at Easton, Bigods School, The College for training women in horticulture). All of them have failed; the benevolent countess has dissipated a large fortune...