Word: cinemae
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...imaginative girls he meets at Bradley Beach. Best shot: Mulhall showing he is an actor by reciting "The Shooting of Dan McGrew." The Wheel of Life (Paramount). To appear in this film Richard Dix, usually properly shaved, grew one of those brief mustaches which indicate to the cinema public that its wearer is a British officer. While he is buying her something to eat in the delicatessen next door, a veiled young woman in evening dress runs away from his apartment. Her action suggests ingratitude, for a few moments before Dix had kept her from committing suicide by jumping...
Died. Strongheart, 13, German police dog, principal of many a cinema (Brawn of the North, White Fang, North Star, The Love Master); in Los Angeles...
...drumfire of publicity in behalf of Prohibition. Its representatives appear before Congressional committees for Dry legislation, against Wet proposals. It classifies Congressmen according to their voting record on Prohibition. It favors or opposes presidential appointees on the basis of "public morals." It agitates Sunday closing laws, book and cinema censorship. It supplies debaters to uphold the Dry side of any Prohibition argument. It compiles Sunday School textbooks, temperance leaflets for Epworth Leagues, pledges Negro school children to total abstinence...
Like many another boxer he plays much golf. He likes cinema and has spent much time studying movies of Jack Dempsey's fights. He wears a gold wristwatch with a black silk band. In his upper jaw he carries two large adjacent gold teeth. When he speaks he gesticulates gracefully...
...Heroine is despondent. She sits at the window of her drab abode, contemplating suicide. The organ of the cinema house plays Tchaikovsky's Pathétique or something equally lugubrious and appropriate. But, hark! A knock on the door! The organist changes quickly into some gay lilt by Mendelssohn. It is the Hero, or a telegram from him, just in time. The Heroine does not leap to her death. Everything ends happily-in the movies. Now that the "talkies" have come, you can actually hear that situation-saving knock on the door. And nowadays the organ music...