Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME'S plan is good, is attractive, but is not "without precedent" except in detail, and perhaps in class of publication. The rate is fair...
...Japan's courtly Prime Minister, 66-year-old Baron Giichi Tanaka. Breaking the traditional oriental silence, last week, the grizzled Prime Minister, in his stocking feet, courteously received Correspondent Barnet Nover of the Buffalo News. A Japanese of the old school, Baron Tanaka never wears shoes except on formal state occasions. Rheumatic, he must be supported by a stalwart valet while being shod...
...Constant Nymph (British). This silent adaptation of Margaret Kennedy's novel has faults which no U. S. producer would have allowed. The lighting is bad; the direction is prosaic; the photography is dull except for some fine shots of the Austrian Tyrol; the actors are obviously actors; the subtitles are verbose. It suffers also the phrases of incontinuity inevitable in a picture made from a long and not particularly compact book. But none of these flaws is important. What was good in the story is alive in the film too?the emotion of something wild beating against influences arranged...
...cinema has had a dreadful time trying to be convincing about the War. The Big Parade was fine for a couple of reels until the old hokum began to stick out. This picture is like The Big Parade in the way some of the battle scenes are handled, but except when mechanical explosions give it energy it is an entirely unreal lyric about a Southern girl who had two sweethearts, one of whom turned out to be a coward. He was drunk when the bugle blew, and when she told him to get out and join the ranks he belched...
Details of the consolidation have not been announced, except that William Henry Crocker will undoubtedly head the united banks. American Trust Co. has long been associated with the name of John Drum, but as Banker Drum's resignation as American Trust Co. president shortly preceded the merger, it did not appear that the new institution would be at all a Drum enterprise. To most Californians, Banker Crocker is perhaps more a symbol than an individual-a symbol of wealth, position, dignity, correctness. He is the only living son of Charles Crocker, who was one of the founders of Southern...