Word: clara
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...CLARA D. NELIGH...
...open-air cinema. Cecil B. De Mille had flown up from Hollywood before the Hoovers left Palo Alto to offer 50 of the industry's proudest new productions. The offer was accepted and the Maryland's tars came in, with the Hoovers, for special viewings of Clara Bow, Emil Jannings, Marion Davies, Janet Gaynor, et al. The film titles ranged from Three Week Ends (Paramount) to Felix in Jungle Bungle (Educational...
Notable only in that it furnishes another good reason for the concluding of the Clara Bow era in Boston. "Three Week Ends", the film now at the Metro-politan parades the scenario art of Elinor Glyn, and a lot of weird action at a pace that is fortunately fast. The director of the production deserves all the credit he can get for having brought this about...
...HEART OF BURROUGHS'S JOURNALS - Edited by Clara Barrus - Houghton Mifflin ($3.00). The daughter of Burroughs's physician and confidant chooses widely and wisely from the autobiographical notes of the great naturalist, friend of Whitman...
...Singer. Poor girls who work hard, live right, do not always develop into great singers. Marion Talley disappointed. So did Mary Lewis, Grace Moore. But Clara Jacobo promises better things. She has at least, contrary to her predecessors, a mighty voice that fills the far crannies of the opera house. She has had operatic experience, sings and moves with an assurance that projects over the footlights. Her first Leonora quavered occasionally, strayed a bit from the pitch but critics took it all kindly, as part of a debut performance, voted her a useful addition to the Metropolitan roster...