Word: chap
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...double somersault with his head in a sack, knows that the colleague who is to catch him would heartily like to see him dead. Somehow as he whirls, blindfold, away from his trapeze, with no net below, he has to find a way to keep the other chap from dropping him. Deft adaptation and direction by George Abbott make the little story pleasant up to this point, and the tenth-of-a-second shot of what the acrobat does next welds it into drama. Its drawbacks are Buddy Rogers' continuous ingenuousness, occasional flat lines, overacting by the "bit" characters...
...with a smile though his back may be breaking. . . . If the men of Brown become like Dr. Barbour in the next ten years, the imprint of the university on time will be epochal." In answering the lipstick charge, Dr. Barbour told a story which ended: "I'm the chap who has to eat it." The other charge he admitted, saying: "Scholars should be in the saddle at college. . . . By the grace of God I will give you all I have. . . ." Two days later, down a precipitous, cobblestoned little street in Providence, moved a stately stream of men and women...
...colorful enough to make any sort of picture entertaining in spots. In this film about a whimsical mechanic's love life, the background is sketchily and conventionally treated. William Haines capitalizes his famed insouciance to the point of insufferability. Proving at the denouement that he is a good chap after all, he sacrifices the race to his pal, Ernest Torrence, best ac tor in the cast. Best shot: a car turning over on the track...
...another rich man, Elverton R. Chapman, had been placed in the same jail for a similar offense. Convict Chap man had a two-cell suite, Persian carpets, special furniture, meals from outside. Maj. William L. Peake, Superintendent of the Washington jail, said Sinclair would be allowed no such luxuries. Declared Jailer Peake...
...last the chap with the scar descended from his Labrador crag, sold the concession to the British government?and all that remained was for the female administration to hush up the scandal...