Word: hardly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...river, Director Harry Pollard has made a picturesque, oldfashioned, tedious melodrama, full of conventional photography and exaggerated acting. Magnolia (Laura La Plante), an awkward young woman with a long jaw, elopes with Gaylord Ravenal (Joseph Schildkraut) in a rowboat. Later she becomes a great actress, though this is hard to believe because Miss La Plante is such a bad one. Best shot: the play given on the stage of the show boat. Silliest shot: Schildkraut drunk...
...programs. There are no solo bows, no bows at all until the end of the play, when the entire cast ap pears. Emphasis is on the play, with known and unknown actors striving and sharing alike except as to salary. The result of these policies, maintained by hard work and patience, has been the discovery of the fact that the U. S., including the hinterland, will clap hands for fine drama as loudly as it does for good circuses, jazz bands, leg shows. Rockbound is about a salty family caught in the fishnets of circumstance on the Maine coast...
...session at which the "break" was said by everyone else to have occurred in his usual frame of mind, remarking: "We have been checked, that is all." Not until the bulls he had red-flagged came snorting forth was the situation realized. In Prussia, heads come square and hard-so much the worse for Germany. Death of Baring. Sorely and righteously angry in his quiet, aristocratic way, John Baring, Baron Revelstoke, rode
...most spectacular match of the day was the contest between B. B. Whitbeck '29 and Bowden of Columbia. The visitor triumphed in two hard fought sets by the score of 10-8, 9-7. Captain Whitbeck was the steadier player and had the edge on Bowden in vollying and coming...
Lipp Batted Hard in Seventh...