Word: knowes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great many people know Jed Harris and a great many of the people that know him like him. He has a way, though, of hurting people's feelings, especially those of the people that work for him, by showing them how their jobs ought to be done. If on such occasions he did their work clumsily, it might make him popular. He does it well and then, with an obtuseness common to most intelligent and sensitive persons, forgets to apologize. His face is likely to be covered with short bristles, a condition which, as he is doubtless aware, teases...
...recent vogue for making Shakespeare modern has extended itself for the coming year to the producers of musical comedy. Like an abdicating heavyweight champion in their homely adoration, George White and others have decided to honor Shakespeare in the only way they know, with naked nymphs and syncopated madrigals. White's notion is a "modern musical version of Romeo and Juliet" but last week, rendered foolish by the astonishing success of his Scandals, he forgot about Shakespeare and said that he was going into the talking movie business. He was tired of soothing temperamental stars...
...philosopher-painter, he prefers to translate a situation as he realizes it. Soon he will take his pictures to the U. S. for display first in his museum, then in jails and school houses for the benefit of the crass as well as of the well-bred. Many to know what he is trying to say with paintings will need the aid of the scientific notes that he made incidentally on his trip...
...Power. Teeth are slightly loose in the jaws. They swivel and play a trifle. They need exercise. Industrious chewing is the best exercise. Most people, who pay attention to their health, know this. Few, however, know that they must put at least 1,700 pounds of pressure into each day's biting, chewing. Dr. Thomas Hartzell of Minneapolis says so. Thorough mastication requires 5,000 pounds of pressure. A person who eats properly uses enough strength daily to lift a 7-passenger motor...
...nimble tumblejacks with chords. Cadman, people find, who have followed his 25 years of music from organ compositions to Indian songs and finally operas, is rigid in his style. They ask: Can he adapt himself to popular sound-pictures; will he debase himself to commercialism? Few of them know that he lives in Hollywood...