Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Henry was born in the same State as her husband, Iowa, some 50 years ago. When she was still in short dresses, her father moved to Whittier, Calif., opened a bank, weathered the 1890 slump, went on to Monterey. Lou was a tall lanky girl, not over-strong. Out of banking hours her father had a passion for the out-of-doors, which his daughter inherited. Together they went on long camping trips up into the mountains (Mrs. Henry preferred to remain behind, ride in a surrey). Mr. Henry taught his girl to know trees, flowers, rocks, birds, animals...
...Leatherneck (Pathe). This is a flashback melodrama of U. S. Marines in Eurasia. The complicated romance between the best-looking Marine and a Russian girl is so intelligently directed by Howard Higgin that at times you do not notice that the story is entirely pointless. Best shot: the camera moving from one face to another at a court-martial while a voice from an unseen source thunders accusations...
...Girls Gone Wild (Fox). Irrelevant interventions of a gang war, written subtitles and a synchronized sound accompaniment, do not keep a cop's son from marrying a millionaire's daughter in a silly picture that will probably be a fair box-office hit. Typical shot: a dying gangster stiffening in the arms of a society girl with whom he was dancing when shot...
...dance program, a flow of tainted testimonials begins to poison the air." Young women have already dieted themselves to the very threshold of tuberculosis, yet these "future mothers of the nation" are encouraged to "substitute" cigarets for "wholesome food." Furthermore, American Tobacco Co. "flaunts" billboard posters of an "adolescent girl" smoking cigarets. Says the summing up: "Yes, it's a shocking business indeed to urge cigarets upon the youth of the nation...
...Catherine, a homely, pious Spanish girl, who had married Henry's elder brother Arthur for political reasons. Arthur died. Catherine failed to give Henry a son. Having natural evidence that this was not his fault, Henry divorced...