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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reflecting that all good things come slowly, that Rome was not built in a day, that patience is a virtue, that duty comes before ambition and business before pleasure, etc., etc., Candidate Smith passed a busy and contented last week in his executive mansion at Albany. He functioned in different capacities...
...Rochester's only morning paper was not just another business deal. From Gannett Hill, the highest point of land in Central New York, it is just possible on clear days to see the spires of Rochester's churches. Frank Gannett's father, Joseph, cleared this hill, built the house where Frank was born, 51 years ago. As a boy of twelve he peddled the Democrat and Chronicle. He has never forgotten his "early attachment...
...Rochester is the largest city yet invaded by Mr. Gannett, the majority of his papers being in cities of less than 100,000 population. The Hearst and Scripps systems are built around great metropolitan dailies. The cities...
...ready host and help when needed. Their children attend each other's weddings; the boys get jobs in Chrysler's factories-at Detroit, Dayton, Ohio, Newcastle, Ind. Mr. Chrysler has paid for an addition to the Kansas Wesleyan University at Salina, Kan. In one Kansas city he built five churches...
Despite the pathetic fallacy upon which this film is built, there is in it plenty of sentimental and .emotional appeal. Such sad scenes are shown as the one wherein the mournful mime requires of a doctor some remedy for his sorrow and is told to look upon the efforts of the finest clown in Rome-none other, as he glumly reflects, than himself. Lon Chaney goes off on a tear in the part of tragic Tito. While it puts some limit upon his metamorphic talent, he is able still to twist his face into many a contorted grin...