Word: fronts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Behind the Front. A burlesque war picture seems slender stuff after The Big Parade. If that homeric comedy had not been made, Behind the Front would probably be called a fairly funny slapstick show with Wallace Beery principally concerned...
...aluminum trust story by leading metropolitan dailies. The World featured the story. Its milder Democratic ally, The New York Times, not feeling so strong a proprietory ardor in the invistigation, allowed it a column in the middle of the first page and a one column head. But the front pages of three Republican papers, The New York Herald-Tribune, The Boston Herald, and The Boston Transcript, were guiltless of the news. It found one column space on page three of the Tribune and on page seventeen of the Herald. In the Transcript, it did not appear...
...aluminum story may or may not have been of front page importance. The fact is a matter of judgment. Nevertheless, the evident alignment of the Democratic papers on the positive side of this proposition and of the Republican on the negative, suggests that one of the constant elements in such journalistic judgment is partisanship. Either the one side was touting a triviality or the other was suppressing a significance...
Metropolitan -- "Behind the Front...
...Spanish romance becomes popular, the movie producers rise as one man and imitate such success until the idea has become completely used up. The second in the series usually is not as creditable as the first, the third is terrible, and from then on we stop counting. "Behind the Front" happens to be the second in the line of realistic war pictures, and as such it is reasonably competent. If only we hadn't seen "The Big Parade" first, this review might assume a lighter and happier tone...