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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...surround the frolics of rich U.S. youngfolk-if you would believe cinema producers. Recently Our Dancing Daughters with its imperial salons and moonswept amours caused such a flutter in nationwide breasts and box-offices that the Metro people repeated the formula with practically the same players involved. Swagger Joan Crawford tosses off cocktails with her real-and-screen husband, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., but this is no sign of fundamental joy. For the story tells you that he has betrayed her with comely Anita Page, who elegantly pantomimes a girl's first inchoate raptures. And Joan has flirted dangerously with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Sep. 16, 1929 | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

GEORGE F. CRAWFORD...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 2, 1929 | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

...Gilbert put on the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet; Marie Dressier sings and prances around. Sometimes slapstick turns into comedy, sometimes comedy trails off into slapstick. The Hollywood Revue is not sophisticated but it is good entertainment. Best song: 'Singing in the Rain.' Prettiest girl: Joan Crawford. Silliest shot: Jack Benny covered with icing from the cake. Best shot: Marie Dressier imitating Marie of Rumania. To publicize the film in Manhattan, a smart manager put up a "human billboard" of flesh-&-blood chorus girls outside the theatre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Aug. 26, 1929 | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

...hours, were criticized for opposing unionization, were advised to take warning from upheavals in the textile mills in the Carolinas and Tennessee (TIME, April 15 et seq.). Chief critics were West Virginia's W. Jett Lauck, chairman of the Bureau of Applied Economics, and Virginia's Bruce Crawford, Norton publisher. Declared Publisher Crawford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Southern Sayings | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

...Alcock '29, J. N. Trainer '31, John Parkinson '29, B. H. Ticknor '31, B. H. Dorman '29, W. D. Ticknor '30, F. A. Clark '29, David Shaw '29, R. H. O'Connell,'30, J. G. Douglas '30, S. C. Burns '29, E. T. Putnam '30, George Crawford '29, A. E. French '29, A. W. Huguley '31, David Guarnaccia '29, W. R. Harper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Athletic Year Has Been the Most Active in History of University | 6/18/1929 | See Source »

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