Word: less
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Will Rogers, the best thing in Three Cheers is Patsy Kelly, who fixes her beady and inspired eyes upon a comedian and sings "You're Beautiful." in a scratchy voice. Dorothy Stone dances nicely, but without the partnership of her father her talent even in this direction seems less than bewildering; as yet she has too little ability to be a star...
...impersonation of a proud princess, perplexed with imminent scandals, reached one of its peaks in the second act. She had just been told that the officer with whom her daughter had been having a flirtation was really a crook called Myrovsky. The effect of this information the princess showed, less by twitchings of her face than by the expression of her knee, which trembled while she sat still in a chair...
Alice Joyce gave a good show, perhaps the best job that any potent cinema player attempting the stage has done to date. She cannot, as yet, match talents with experienced Manhattan actresses, but gives decided promise. Owen Moore, less good, played sullenly. Both were nervous, appalled by the mass of cinema potentates in the opening audience, purveyors of huge talking picture contracts to players who can talk...
...Sears Roebuck stock, less spectacular, has not lagged behind the advance. From a low of 51 in January, 1927, it climbed to a 1928 high, last fortnight...
When Lord Melchett landed in Manhattan, last month, no sophisticated observer believed he would repeat Father Ludwig's career and start building a factory to make soda-water. He had, in a manner of speaking, quite enough factories already. Less than two years ago, he had linked Brunner Mond Co. with Nobel Industries, Inc. (explosives) and British Dyestuffs, Ltd., to create England's largest holding company. As chairman of the board of Imperial Chemical Industries. Ltd. (I. C. I.), he presides over a corporation with an authorized capital of nearly...