Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Roaring Rails is virtually a flashback. It returns to the days when all that was necessary for a vast success was a good train wreck and a knock-down-drag-out fight (in which the villain was knocked and dragged). There was also a girl and, usually, a dynamite job under the canyon bridge. Roaring Rails has all of these plus a small section of the World War. The hero is a locomotive engineer. People who are burdened with deep intelligence are cautioned not to ride behind...
...shabby stage of Tip Thompson's variety show on the Texas border. In its centre is Marietta, gir! of his seminar}' village. She deserts his studious quietness for the more flagrant physical attractions of Dedaux, the Knife Thrower. "The Saint" has lost his girl and lost...
...dope addict. Her strong, silent friend (Tearle) takes the addict down to the seashore and kills him with a heroin and whisky cocktail. Returning, he vilifies the lady's father who has made the match and watched it smoulder because of his own ambitions toward the peerage. The girl falls, as planned, into the arms of a more agreeable matrimonial prospect...
...conference, which is composed of representatives from 26 colleges will discuss the three party platforms this afternoon. Exton will present the Democratic platform, a Yale man the La Follette platform, and a Smith girl the Republican platform...
...music, for the Regent through his many troubles possesses the gift of song, is pleasant. Some of the hits are distinctly good, -- particularly the Crown Prince's philosophical "A Pretty Girl", --and most, are well sung. The tunes carry you back to the man who used to sing "Where the River Shannon Flows" as he beat rugs in the back yard. They are pretty and melodious, but while not holding them to be directly the cause of the War, it is no libel to say that one has only to hear them to understand the why of jazz...