Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...jack from now on. ... And when I get a nice big pile I'm going to buy me a newspaper somewhere-and have some...
...Film. Under contract to First National pictures are Cinemactors Richard Barthelmess, Jack Buchanan, Cinemactresses Marilyn Miller, Colleen Moore. Irene Bordoni. Last week they heard that Warner Brothers, previously jointly controlling First National with the Fox Film Corp., had bought the Fox holding for $10,000,000. Reason given by Cineman Fox for the sale was that First National Pictures are silent, that Fox Film Corp. intends producing only sound pictures...
Eastern boxing arbiters regard with disfavor the roughness of towheaded middle-weight contender Ace Hudkins. They regard with suspicion the astuteness of Jack Kearns, manager of Middle-weight Champion Mickey Walker. Before Hudkins and Walker got in a ring together one cool starry night in Los Angeles last week, rumors went about that Kearns had a contract in his pocket to manage Hudkins. These rumors kept betting down, but proved unfounded as soon as Walker's first rights and lefts thudded home. Before long Hudkins' coarse face, misshapen by the beatings he is accustomed to take even when...
When Notre Dame scouts, in violation of agreement, were caught watching Georgia Tech, it looked bad until Coach Rockne wired that whatever the scouts told would be forgotten. Later Notre Dame's Jack Elder (he once outsprinted Olympic Sprinter Percy Williams) and triple-threat Carideo showed that they did not need to know about Georgia Tech...
...barmaid named Minnie is heroine of the David Belasco play which Puccini adapted. She keeps a saloon in a California mining camp, reads the Bible to drunkards, guards their money. Among them is Sheriff Jack Rance. He loves her, but Minnie, by the end of the first act, prefers Dick Johnson, outlaw in disguise. Rance obtains proof that Johnson is the bandit Ramarrez and tells Minnie. The big scene occurs when she confronts Johnson with her knowledge and drives him out into the storm. He is wounded just outside the door and she drags him in again and hides...