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...leader of the merrier element was James Leary Flood. In his blood was an instinct for the fleshpots; in his bank, money for it. His father was James Clair ("Bonanza King") Flood, onetime saloon keeper, later owner of the Comstock Lode with William S. O'Brien, James...
Life's words of plaint were really spoken from the heart. For in no club is to be found a more avid player than Life's President Clair Maxwell. His scores are more often in the 70's than in the 90's, but he knows how poorer players feel. Just as enthusiastic are his brothers-Lee, president of Crowell Publishing Co.; Ray G., advertising agent, and Lloyd, of Williams & Cunnyngham agency, Chicago. The four Brothers Maxwell have a standing challenge to any other foursome of one family, or any foursome of the publishing business. Life...
...made their characters participate in comic pursuits, prolonged and exaggerated through a series of wild mishaps. The cinema has since mastered other and more subtle methods of achieving funny effects and a Hollywood director might have thought twice before resorting to the simple old pursuit device as Director Rene Clair (Sous Les Toits de Paris) does in Le Million. As in comic opera, with swift pictorial action and amusing musical interludes, Le Million depicts its hero's vicissitudes. The hero wins a fortune in a lottery but he has left the lottery ticket in the pocket...
...difficulties of retrieving the coat are not so ingenuously preposterous as those imagined by originators of the old-time farces. Director Clair, perceiving opportunities for satire, has made the opera singer a stout, pretentious clown, the thief & friends ridiculous prototypes of U. S. gangsters, the hero's creditors a crew of rascally lickspittles. He pokes fun at the opera by showing the property man making a snowstorm out of paper, music lovers applauding before a duet is finished. Francophiles, whose excuses for cheering the French cinema were somewhat limited before Sons Les Toits de Paris, will be pleased...
Sonata in F Major Clair Leonard...