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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...RACKET-Gunmen, cops, reporters, a cabaret girl, kick and scream as Chicago shoots to kill (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Best Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 27, 1928 | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

Sporting Goods. The tradition that youthful salesmanship ranks in romance with search for the Holy Grail forms the basis for this fossilated farce. Richard Dix, as a brawny, broken-nosed, commercial traveler, twines love and business, achieving girl and commission. It gags and gurgles about the young salesman and his sweetie who admires him for being both opulent and deceitful. Ethics are somewhat mixed, the principals in an excellent poker sequence shifting cards until Dix acquires four of a kind, raking in thereby $4,000. Director Malcolm St. Clair, smart maker of the recent Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, was more interested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Feb. 27, 1928 | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

...human interest stories as: "Thirty Days to Live," "His Last Moment of Glory," "Wings of Love" (aviators), "The Salvation of a Bank Burglar." It has only four faintly off-color confessions. But the March True Experiences could almost be read at a Sunday school picnic. It has a wholesome girl on the cover, properly clad in a red dress with white collar; an editorial by Mr. Macfadden entitled "Broaden Your Outlook." Among the confessions are "The Girl of the Golden Heart," "MatchMaking Mothers," "When Loyalty Calls." Attempted seductions: three. Successful seductions: none...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Diluted Sex | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

Eloped. Gordon Godowsky, 22, son of famed Pianist-Composer Leopold Godowsky; brother of Cinemasiren Dagmar Godowsky; Harvard senior, now "suping" in The Trial of Mary Dugan (wherein a blonde Follies girl defends her name); with Miss Yvonne Hughes, blonde Follies girl. Result: disinheritance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Feb. 20, 1928 | 2/20/1928 | See Source »

...reported that girls who work in Kresge Stores took a frank and unwholesome delight in the misfortunes of their "boss;" that it pleased them to know that the man whose name was painted with spotless gold upon a thousand red facades, whose fame for righteousness and reformation was as large as his fame for wealth, was after all no better than themselves; mayhap, not even as good. A year and a half ago, Kresge wrote to Senator James Couzens, asking him for a $1,000 contribution to a girl's home. With a larger check, the senator sent Kresge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe: Kresge's Gifts | 2/20/1928 | See Source »

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