Word: howelis
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dangerous Curves (Paramount). It would not be fair to apply the term stale to this story about a circus performer who loses his skill when his female partner breaks up the team. Long ago it passed from being simply stale to an honorable status as one of the great stencils...
Piccadilly (British). People who liked The Old Wives' Tale may be startled at the idea of Arnold Bennett writing a film for Gilda Gray. And people who liked the Follies of 1922 may think it odd that Shimmy-Dancer Gray would appear in a story by Litterateur Bennett. Yet...
Pitchers. The pitchers have been having a hard time. Where once it was something of a disgrace for a pitcher to be batted out of the box, it is now a matter for comment when a pitcher lasts the full nine innings. "Best" pitcher of the year has been Robert...
Died. Mrs. Howard Kinsey, 68, of San Francisco, mother of Tennis-Players How ard and Robert Kinsey (U. S. national clay court doubles champions, 1924); in San Francisco.
Carrying objects, and perhaps eventually persons, by means of rockets is an engineering phase of physics in which Professor Goddard, 47, has been experimenting for 17 years. The principle of rocket motion is simple-action and reaction. Escaping gases act in one direction, the rocket body in the opposite. The...