Word: goings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...station he is met by his secretary, begins immediately to dictate letter after letter and continues dictating across the Hudson. Luncheon is to him no gastronomic interlude ; it is incidental to concurrent conferences. His secretaries have been young college men, whom he keeps until they want to go elsewhere, but meanwhile he takes them upon his many travels. He keeps personal letters, family pictures, in a safe at his Montclair home, thereby facilitating the work of a future Boswell. His resignation (made a fortnight ago, effective Jan. 1) leaves him free to give more time to his duties as chairman...
...iridescent tenderness of her Elsa; the white compassion of her Elizabeth. Critics carp at vocal imperfections, occasional explosive performances, but in the final reckoning they pale like small talk before the fact that operatic puppets are given life, that people who had hitherto small patience with "grand" opera go to Jeritza, pay top prices, listen and watch intently and go again...
...screen's first stammerer. Best shot: the line of taxicabs bringing Antonio Moreno's Scotch up from the boat. Best loud-line (Dugan) : "I was in jail but I got pppp ... I got pppp . . . par . . . they let me out for a while. . . ." Best criticism (Variety) "Can go into any wired house for a week...
Lillian Gish and David Wark Griffith met in Mary Pickford's dressing-room in the old Biograph studio. Lillian Gish had left Massillon, Ohio, to go on the stage with her sister Dorothy. As a fairy in The Good Little Devil she was lifted across the stage by a wire which broke one night and dropped her on the floor. She burst into tears, later rewarded with a salary which gave each trembling drop the literal value of a pearl...
...Every motor car would be headed for the scrapheap; every loudspeaker would be silent; every telephone would 'go dead'; every electric light would go out. The gloveless surgeon would be unable to perform his life-saving operations. . . . Contemporary man could not get along. . . . Life would be devoid of half its conveniences and comforts...