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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Michigan Kid, Wheel of Chance, A Certain Young Man, The Play Girl, Burning Daylight are neither curious nor good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chart | 7/30/1928 | See Source »

Frederick Arthur Schoenfeld, counselor to the U. S. Embassy at Mexico City. ¶President Coolidge commuted to life imprisonment the death sentence of one Malcomb Howard, 35, Negro, convicted in Washington of murdering Jessie Nelson, girl friend, last winter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Host | 7/30/1928 | See Source »

...against a baseball, the ear-splitting yawp of the crowd, the squawk of an offstage soprano are in the air, now and then. The story purports to tell how the Yankees won the World Series when a bush-league pitcher (Richard Dix) peered into the grandstand, saw his girl (Jean Arthur) signal that she would marry him. Then he fanned the opposition, including his dastardly rival. So full of hebetude is the film that baseball fans squirmed, bit thumbs, made unpleasant faces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jul. 30, 1928 | 7/30/1928 | See Source »

Telling the World. Disinherited by his banker-father though he is, the hail-fellow (William Haines) strides into a newspaper office and tells the city editor he wants a job. His first assignment is to interview his father. Another assignment is to cover a murder case, in which a girl is wrongfully accused. He neglects to make the edition and goes running off to China with the girl. Things like that do not happen to newspaper reporters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jul. 30, 1928 | 7/30/1928 | See Source »

...will be 24 on Aug. 10. No girl from the farm, no onetime Childs' waitress, she entered the movies as a debutante from Montreal, Canada, where her family lost money after the World War. The pictures that made her were The Flapper, Broadway After Dark, Pleasure Mad. Later, she did The Demi-Bride, The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg. She is the women's tennis champion of Hollywood, swims and dives well, drives a Chrysler, likes apple pie and rice pudding, runs an ostrich plume shop in Montreal. Her husband is Irving Thai-berg, production manager...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jul. 23, 1928 | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

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