Word: corlis
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their best cavalier postures in plays productive of little else (TIME, Oct. 21, Nov. 4). They are now followed by Lou Tellegen, an actor of bearing as lordly as befits a onetime leading man of Sarah Bernhardt and Eleanora Duse. As a bandit?descendant of the wildly surmising explorer Cor-tez?he descends upon a cinema company taking pictures in the Mexican mountains. To his castle on the crags he carries the stately leading lady (Helen Baxter) and numerous others, including a cameraman's little fiancee (Dorothea Chard), who is thus far the season's most piquant and delectable brunette...
...night in June, 1928, a tall, ministerial figure strode upon the national scene and introduced himself in prodigious basso tones as follows: "If anyone has- any difficulty-in hearing me-in the remotest cor-rners of this hall-do not bla-ame it on Calif-o-ornia-but bla-ame it on Ka-ansas City!" It was great-voiced John L. McNab, San Francisco lawyer, placing his good friend, Herbert Clark Hoover, in nomination for the Presidency of the U. S. Then John L. McNab retired from the national scene...
...anyone has-any difficulty-in hearing me-in the remotest cor-rners of this hall-do not bla-ame it on Calif-o-ornia-but bla-ame it-on Ka-ansas.City...
...this, The Lone Eagle is successful. The Lovelorn. On the staff of al most all important U. S. news-sheets there is a lady, sometimes impersonated by a blue-jowled police court reporter, whose duty it is to supply a column of friendly counsel to cor respondents who sign themselves "Blue-eyes" or "Blonde" or "Brokenhearted." The most famed proprietor of such a column is one Beatrice Fair fax, who at her littered desk, sur rounded by helpmates, appears by proxy in this film. The plot, supposed ly non-fictitious, details the amorous bewilderments of those whose wails and whines...
...Indiana ? The latter, not content that the Reverend E. S. Shumaker, State Anti-Saloon superintendent of Indiana, had been sentenced to two months on a penal farm for contempt of court, was last week seeking to extend the Reverend Shumaker's sentence considerably for alleged efforts to cor- rupt the Supreme Court of Indiana in its review of his case...