Word: delights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Holidays are really anachronisms, made vital by the fact that there is still, even in the college mind, a semplance of schoolboy delight in staying away from class. The baneful part is that the vacation is so limited as to be practically useless. Even the senior must return for his first class, remain for his last. Yet most undergraduates would defend them. One cannot lose conventionally in a fortnight...
Kosher Kitty Kelly (Viola Dana). The Jews and Irish are at it again, this time in cinema based on the play by the same name. Assorted gangsters, policemen, heroes, heroines emerge from the fracas in a glowing Hebraic-Hibernian conglomeration for the delight of broad-minded onlookers...
...ancient citadels, the intrigue of Bourbon-breath'd henchmen, the moneyed powers, the lovely Senorita de Avila who dies heroically so that Peter may live. Filibuster Walker, as some may recall, spurns the aid of the mighty Commodore Van- derbilt. So the Commodore who spits tobacco to the delight of Manhattan street-cleaners thwarts the destiny of Mr. Walker. In Honduras there is a final "spectacle"-a firing squad . . . the limp body of the destiny-man ... a clatter of hoofs . . . the sparing of Peter, who returns to Manhattan, to the waiting arms of Lydia van Ruysdyck. They marry...
...effort to "solve the age-old problem of reconciling music and drama in the theatre," commended Composer Harling for his mighty second act, deplored the fact that it was so much too big for the two acts that framed it, wondered if the same audience would be able to delight in the many heterogeneous parts...
...American's representative, journeying downtown in a taxicab, chanced to look at the letter on which Mrs. Rockefeller had written her message. To his surprise he saw that it was from a friend of the family, expressing delight that Abby was to be married to Mr. Milton. This was confirmation enough-the American's beat was assured. But the reporter decided to do the decent thing and called on Mr. Lee. He told Mr. Lee that the story already was confirmed and that it was an American exclusive. But Mr. Lee, to the reporter's horror, said...