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...Committee in charge has secured several of the newest comedies, with Larry Semon and Buster Keaton featured. Music will be provided, and arrangements have been made to serve refreshments as usual...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seniors Secure Semon for Smoker | 5/10/1924 | See Source »

...view of the large number of good contributions the Editors further extended the contest and presented the degrees of "Magna cum Laude" and "Cum Laude" to those who offered such expressions as "Puritank," "Camelouse," "Cooktail-Fles," and "Jug-Buster...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fair Winner of Advocate Contest Proves Women Not All Bone Drys; "Spigot-Bigot" Best Suggests "Die Hard" Variety | 2/29/1924 | See Source »

...Hospitality. The Keatons, four of them, combine to make this picture highly hilarious. Father Keaton, Mr. and Mrs. Buster and Baby Buster. Buster is, of course, the comic prop sustaining the family fortune. He is a trifle quieter than usual. He invades a Southern town where his ancestors feuded with the Canfields. The latter, unwittingly, invite him to their, house and find themselves in the uncomfortable position of not being able to shoot him owing to their reverence for the traditions of Southern hospitality. Mrs. Buster Keaton was, of course, Natalie Talmadge. She is nearly as exciting as her more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 17, 1923 | 12/17/1923 | See Source »

Born in Potsdam, N. Y., he has lived in Minnesota since his youth. He had only a common school education; then studied law. He made his fortune?he is a millionaire?as a corporation lawyer. But he is also a " trust buster." He was counsel for the Government in dissolution suits against the Standard Oil Co., the Paper Trust, the Union Pacific-Southern Pacific merger. He has been President of the American Bar Association...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: The President's Choice | 11/5/1923 | See Source »

...Three Ages. Buster Keaton's first long feature is very, very funny -in spots. As a whole it drags a bit and depends a little too much on mechanical tricks for its humor-but the highlights are high enough when they come, to ensure a pleasant evening for almost anyone. The three ages concerned are the Stone Age, the days of the Roman Empire, and the present; the theme: that love is the same no matter in what century you meet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Oct. 8, 1923 | 10/8/1923 | See Source »

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