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...Read The Best", a Nation article advocates the complete and utter demolishment of what is known in publishing parlance as summer fiction. The writer very wisely points out that vacation time is just exactly when one has the most leisure and inclination to read those books which in the buster winter time have been negiected. New books are not necessarily the best says the magazine--not a thought of much startling originality but nevertheless one which bears repetition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BOOKWORM TURNS | 6/13/1927 | See Source »

Above all, though, the show is fast. Everyone dances: almost all of them competently, some well--at least one; Edward Allen, in a Buster West sort of tumble, superbly. At the rise of the curtain the play achieves a headlong velocity which it strives to keep up all evening for the most part with good success. This swift tempo is largely due to the chorus, the "Twelve Judy Joyous Joy Walkers", very rightly headlined. Almost everyone of the dozen, besides doing splits, turning cartwheels, and kicking head-high, does a specialty of some sort. Together they frisk and float about...

Author: By T. P., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 1/20/1927 | See Source »

Died. Zalophus ("Buster") Californianus, 22, dean of sea-lions and headliner of the Battery Park Aquarium; in Manhattan, of coryza...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 13, 1926 | 9/13/1926 | See Source »

...only occasion upon which Mr. Hays' "heart touch" seemed forced is when photographed with filmdom's buffoons-Ben Turpin, Buster Keaton. The dictator of the fourth largest industry possibly meditates upon a smug lawn and a White House in Washington-then sighs, returns to work. After all, he is a president. And, withdrawn from politics, he has become an unselfish deus ex machina to the movies, a veritable polychromatic Pollyanna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movie Monarch | 9/13/1926 | See Source »

...high cards in this year's Scandals are numerous. There is Ann Pennington, whose knees are impudence itself; Harry Richman, night club interlocutor; Eugene and Willie Howard, Jewish comedians; Buster West, comic; McCarthy Sisters and Fairbanks Twins, who dance, sing; Tom Patricola, frantic dancer; Frances Williams, whose Charleston is notable; and Fowler and Tamara, brilliant ballroom artists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Jun. 28, 1926 | 6/28/1926 | See Source »

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