Word: cabin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...relief and to resuscitate the nobler characters after arduous adventures in the forest primeval, was laid down before Prohibition. Proud, independent and flirtatious though she is, Heroine Monica Dale, wilderness virgin, is made to explain in pretty confusion that the hero, after helping her to her lonely mountain-top cabin in a deluge, must go out and sleep in the barn. Otherwise she would be?er ?compromised...
...ascend Parnassus without art. And Vachel Lindsay is a child without art, and as a child without art he sets out bravely not toward Parnassus but toward the mountains of Glacier Park, toward Sun-Mountain, and Wolf-Peak, and the Red Gods, and various flowers, and love in a cabin, and far horizons. As a child he returns with a bouquet of words about Sun-Mountain, and Wolf-Peak, and various flowers, and far horizons, and the Red Gods, and love in a cabin. As the bouquet of a child is this fruit of his return, for it is culled...
...imagine verging anyway. Miss Fvre sees Etta Banana's tragedy and shuts her eyes. I remembered, as I saw her, that famous evening when the great and only Eddie Foy, his family and I filled the old Madison Square Garden watching Duse play little Eva in "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Miss Frye has the same elan, the some esprit, the same biceps...
...glided into the choppy sea as best he could, but not without pitching overboard one of his passengers, one Peter Kanevaros of Jaffersonville, Ind. While the gentleman from Indiana was bobbing up and paddling back to the plane, Pilot Dinsmore quickly instructed his remarkably calm companions. They broke a cabin window and chopped a hole in the roof. They took posts on the broad wings and fuselage as they were told, distributing weight as evenly as possible to help the fabric keep them afloat. They were a little scared. The ship's heavy engines were taking her down nose...
These would be absurd quibbles in a picture where every other prospect pleased and lived up to expectations, but those failures were typical. The Campus Flirt compared to "Variety", the German film, which is touring the backstreets of Boston, as a road show of "Uncle Tem's Cabin" compares to Iolanthe. Any one of Mack Sennet's directors could have thrown together a better chorus of track ladies with ten minutes notice, and provided better comedy than was afforded here...