Word: brawls
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...pathetic story which Lew turns into a highly satisfactory farce-comedy. The platform of the play is an assault on "Tin Pan Alley" and the jazz factories. Franz Henkel (Fields) is an old German composer who showed considerable promise in his youth by writing a Dresden Sonata. A university brawl, in which he inadvertently shoots another student, has forced him to flee his native land; impecuniosity compels him to do hack work in the popular music concern of Al Tyler (Donald Gallagher). Here he furnishes orchestrations and harmonies for the musically illiterate composers of song hits and barely succeeds...
...Munich, capital of Bavaria, was held the "little Hitler trial," at which the lesser followers of "Ludy" and Hitler were tried for their share in the "beerhall brawl" (TIME, Nov. 19, March 3, 24, April...
...great General Ludendorff was not, however, despondent. According to newspaper reports, he ran with exceeding swiftness to the Bürgerbrau Keller, famed beer hall associated with a "brawl" (TIME, Nov. 19) in which "Ludy" was one of the principal figures, to celebrate the Monarchist victory. There he delivered himself of an impassioned oration...
...often impressive transcription of Mary Roberts Rinehart's book and play about amnesia, though it will leave the average witness at times in the same mental haze as the hero. Matt Moore gives a convincing portrayal of the young man who kills a rival in a sordid brawl, forgets his past and achieves respectability, only to have the long arm of the law reach out to yank him back to degradation. Nita Naldi as the siren who twice tries to wreck him is too corpulent to vamp anyone but a Turkish sultan...
...Republicans, Liberals, Socialists and Reds opened an all-along-the-line attack against the monarchist drive, arguing the effect of a monarchist revival on French policy and the ridiculous "Beer House Brawl" to discredit both the Berlin and the Munich reactionaries...