Word: ending
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...again in Russia, Brooklyn, Coney Island, the tropics. Their dialog, consisting mostly of aggressive variations of the phrases "Says You" and "Says me," is amazingly rough for cinema, outshocks What Price Glory in places. One of the men gets wounded, the other leads his troops to glory. At the end they settle in their own way an argument as to which of them is the father of Lily Damita's child. Director Raoul Walsh, who himself acts the part of a Marine captain, gets music in by having the Marines play mouth organs, listen to instrumental concerts, and march...
Laborite Laissez Faire. Efforts to end the strike were not strenuously made, last week, by Britain's new Labor Government. Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald seemed to think he needed a few days vacation, took it at his rustic Scottish home in Lossiemouth. Even kinetic Margaret ("Maggie") Bondfield, onetime shop clerk and now Minister of Labor, adopted a surprising attitude of laissez faire. True, a subcommittee of a subcommittee of a Cabinet subcommittee was established, "to consider and report upon" the situation, but even its chairman. Laborite Rt. Hon. William Graham. President of the Board of Trade, took only perfunctory...
Died. Ambrose Monell, 23, of Manhattan, son and heir of the late nickel tycoon (founder and longtime head of the National Nickel Co.) ; near Armonk, N. Y. when an airplane which he and a friend had chartered for a week-end trip crashed, killing both passengers and the pilot...
...tediousness of meetings, nor alone for the goodwill that Singer Jolson will bring to aid them in selling his records, but mainly for the knowledge of the amusement line and the shrewd sense of business that Singer Jolson has shown. For contrary to the belief that all actors end in an Actors' Home, he has prospered financially and his operations in Warner Bros. (Vitaphone) stock alone are said to have made him a fortune...
...test on which Winner Huston scored 92 and lowest competitor above 60, the passing mark, was in four parts, running from specific questions to vague ones that were admittedly impossible to grade but gave characteristics of the boy. Some of the questions follow with the answers at the end...