Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...book Col. Chamberlin gives thanks to Carl B. Allen, reporter on aviation for the New York World, who helped him write it. In the trade Allen would be known as a "ghost-writer...
...Vision and Supervision. Said he: "We have many saints in our higher offices today . . . there are many flapper saints in short skirts. . . . We should all try to get back to the childhood spirit. . . ." In addition, Bishop Darlington asserted that only one person in 500 communes "directly" with the Holy Ghost; that he would introduce jazz music into services if he thought it would bring many people into church...
...know him very well, is a hardened specimen ; but Beryl Stedman, his fiancee, is a pure sweet girl. Her guardian is Lew Friedman, an ex-convict, reformed, very eager to effect her marriage to jolly Frank Sutton. There is also a newspaper reporter who scuttles about like a comic ghost. Robberies are going off all the time, like firecrackers, and Squealer is up to his tricks. It is plain that, in actuality, he is one of the persons named above. But which one? Is there any way to find out without waiting for the last chapter? There is. The squealer...
...Heart of a Clown, as every literate person knows, is breaking behind his smile. In this picture, a warmed over Swedish production, Gosta Ekman* as woebegone clown Joe Higgins, supplies an erratic but generally satisfying performance. The Haunted Ship is a mere ghost of famed Jack London's story, White and Yellow. A sea captain, detecting an amorous alliance between his wife and his first-mate, sets the former adrift in a boat and imprisons the latter in the hold of his ship. For 15 years the midnight ocean is made hideous by the howls and whinings...
...This Woman Business" is good farce, rarely overacted, and better than "The Ghost Train". The first act, a medley of devices for stalling for time, is ideally suited to the risibilities of any audience, including the Elizabethan. Harvard men will be interested in an attempt to put on the stage in musical comedy plot two characters of embarrassing resemblance to prominent members of the English Department...