Word: boys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...independent producing company has probably fulfilled its intention of building a box-office success on the Jazz Singer formula around Minstrel Eddie 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...
...equaled by the latter's wrath at finding his paint box exhausted in the interests of embryonic art. Such attention must be significant whether deserved or not. It was not so long ago that the long, long haired sister expressed a preference for the military buttons of the soldier boy. The present comment is at lest an indication of the fact that the same benevolent attention is bestowed upon the irresponsibilities of the big brother. Fortunately or unfortunately, circumstances have intervened to absolve him of his guilt, since the participants referred to in the above scornful condemnation were not Harvard...
...last week from the senior Leopold's will. The two trustee brothers get equal shares of $500,000. Soprano Mary Garden met Tenor Beniamino Gigli for the first time last week in Manhattan. Said he: "It is a great pleasure to meet a great artist." Said she: "Dear boy, I am so glad to meet you at last...
...according to the money they made last week: (A) The Passion of Joan of Arc-Silent French version of history's greatest courtroom scene. The Divine Lady-Love among the frigates. The Spieler-Original story of carnival life. Wild Orchids- Greta Garbo in a bedroom for three. Strong Boy-Promotions of a baggage-smasher. (B) The Wild Party ($42,300, Buffalo, Buffalo) ; Wolf. Song ($34,000, Paramount, Los Angeles); Noah's Ark ($20,000, Aldine, Philadelphia); Weary River ($7,900, Des Moines, Des Moines...
...Quaker village of West Branch, Iowa, there was once a tow-haired boy who hung around the printing shop of the local Times so much and caused so much devilment, usually by distributing handset type into wrong boxes, that occasionally he had to be ejected-Herbert Clark Hoover. So said A. W. Jackson, 50 years a country newspaper man, retiring last week from the staff of the Tipton (Iowa) Advertiser...