Word: facings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...workout was largely devoted to the development of an effective aerial attack. Different passing combinations were tried and worked with varying success, but no definite conclusions were reached by the coaches. The lineup which will face Hole Cross this week-end is still as problematical as it was after Saturday's encounter with Pennsylvania...
...London society of which he has such wide and intimate knowledge is the background for his latest essay. People literary, artistic and scientific are his actors,--people who would normally be expected to have lofty aspirations which flub completely in the face of situations and forces quite as common as any existant in a lower social strata...
...Legend of Gosta Berling, made in Sweden several years ago, brought the disturbing face of Greta Garbo to the notice of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Co. Lars Hanson (here Gosta Berling, an unfrocked Swedish preacher in love with a Count's wife in a Nobel Prize story by Selma Lagerlöf) came to Hollywood with her but quarreled with directors, protested against the stupidity of the roles they gave him, went back to Stockholm where he is now a leading "legit" actor. Miss Garbo, too, after immediate success, showed temperament but was soothed. In this picture, awkwardly constructed...
...Biograph to Reliance, Majestic, Fine Arts, Artcraft, First National, United Artists. Somehow, no matter how bad the scenario was, her intelligence brought to certain moments and situations that reality which is the definition of great acting and which Miss Gish's famous frailty, her dimples, her soft, elliptical face, and her pale hair down to her waist could not keep people from recognizing. Now under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, she is directed by Victor Seastrom...
...volumes of his papers, indicating as they did his tremendous importance as adviser and negotiator, was therefore a surprise to the uninitiated, a gripe to the prejudiced. They accused House of taking too much credit to himself, thereby belittling Wilson. But if he takes co-credit, on the face of it he takes co-blame for the numerous mistakes that go up to make that tragedy of errors...