Word: gooding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reform, but is to secure the passage of prohibitory legislation and then leave it to the Government to carry out the reformers' ideas. . . . We go in strongly for 'noble experiments' and while I suppose that no one would pretend that we really want to be good, we are nevertheless anxious that the world should understand that we approve of goodness in others...
...keep pace with its readership. "Trick" layouts, a special testimonial issue, salesman's "thermometers" in the office and other features of the hard-driving Annenberg technique, did not bring in the business as fast as required. Rapid changes of advertising managers did the magazine no great good among agency men. Dark-haired, resourceful Nelson Revitt Perry, formerly with Curtis publications, has now held down the job for three years...
When churchmen discuss the cinema it is usually in terms of censorship. Unusual was the appointment last week by the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America of a cinema commission which, instead of trying to weed out the bad, will attempt to find the good-recommend cinema for church programs; dispense cineminformation; encourage films promoting international goodwill; study the relation between the cinema and public welfare...
Twin Beds (First National). Comedian Jack Mulhall, who used to act only with Dorothy Mackaill, herein plays opposite Patsy Ruth Miller, supported by a good cast. The story is one of those anecdotes generally used as a framework for the less profitable shows of minor burlesque circuits. Miss Miller's frustrated ambition to sleep in a bed beside her husband's on her wedding night might have been funny in spite of everything but for the dialog-line after awkward line recited in singsong and divided from the next by little fences of silence. Twin Beds is partially...
...Raquel Meller acts like a phantom for the camera's phantom audience. Her gestures are uncertain and stylized, yet she does not seem to be a phantom of herself but of some other actress, perhaps Bernhardt, perhaps Duse. Bernhardt made a cinema 17 years ago that was a good deal like this.* It was a costume drama too, and even with the experimental craftsmanship of the time hardly more sketchy and grandiloquent than The Oppressed, where the daughter of the Spanish High Constable to the Netherlands is in love with the leader of the oppressed Flemings. The photography might...