Word: jim
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rolled Stockings (James Hall,* Louise Brooks,- Richard Arlen-). If the jubilant alumni only realized that Jim Treadway's stroking old Colfax to victory was in part the silent triumph of his brother Ralph, who dashed the cup and the bad lady from brawny Jim's lips, and told him he ought to keep training the night before the big race, perhaps they would have felt the same simple gratification as the audience when the unsung hero got the girl and ended the picture. Paid to Love (George O'Brien, Virginia Valli). The picture involves a mythical kingdom...
TIME'S "Manhattan," "famed," "one," and similar expressions have long annoyed me. Why inform us that the daughter of "famed" brewery-owner John Smith has married "one" Jim Jones, or words to that effect? Why not just call the young man "Jim Jones" and let it go at that? More than likely he belongs to the same social strata of society as the lady he marries. Such terms sound snobbish and affected to unassuming American ears. And they do not sound like the best of English either...
...tonight will consist of 14 numbers in all. They are as follows: 1. "Oriental Fantasy"; 2. "Sometimes I'm Happy"; 3. "Sunny Disposiah"; 4. "I Can't Believe You're In Love"; 5. "Jazz Me Blues"; 6. "I'll Just Go Along"; "Halleluiah"; 8. "Rose in the Bud"; 9. "Jim Time Blues"; 10. Little Boy, Little Girl"; 11. "Ain't She Sweet"; 12. "Russian Fantasy"; 13. "Old-Fashioned Love"; 14. "Our Director...
...Story* is about Pauline Manford, her gaily poised daughter Nona Manford, her tired-lawyer husband Dexter Manford, her easy-going son by a former husband Jim Wyant, and Jim's wife Lita...
...implicitly concerned in one another's actions, each is so much a pillar in the last year of the 19th Century, separate catastrophe would be impossible. Total catastrophe trembles above them like a paper cutter on a thread when Dexter Manford arranges things so that he can, without Jim, have Lita as a guest in his country home. A triviality twists the weapon as it falls. Nona's arm is grazed, but her parents, unhurt, set out to tour the world. Lita goes back to Jim...