Word: lews
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fashion has given "another chance;" functioning under Captain Leslie is the inscrutable Tillman, always poking his nose into everyone's business. Frank Sutton's secretary, who seems to know him very well, is a hardened specimen ; but Beryl Stedman, his fiancee, is a pure sweet girl. Her guardian is Lew Friedman, an ex-convict, reformed, very eager to effect her marriage to jolly Frank Sutton. There is also a newspaper reporter who scuttles about like a comic ghost. Robberies are going off all the time, like firecrackers, and Squealer is up to his tricks. It is plain that, in actuality...
...habit of Director David Lew-elyn Wark Griffith to sentimentalize his sound themes, to intensify the subtlety of a straightforward situation by allowing the lens of his camera to point for long and frequent intervals at the almost im mobile face of one of his characters. This he does under the name of art; its effect upon the cinema is most unhealthy, be cause it prevents the plot from achieving a proper momentum. Aside from this foible, Director Griffith is consistently aware of his story's potentialities. His photography is always dextrous, at times brilliantly effective. Director Griffith...
...mayors" of Indianapolis were one Joseph Hogue and one Walter Myers. They contended that, by Mayor Duvall's conviction, his election in 1925 was voided. Joseph Hogue claimed office on the ground that he was City Comptroller in the administration of John L. Duvall's immediate predecessor, the late Lew Shank. Walter Myers claimed office because he ran second to John L. Duvall in the 1925 election...
...Indianapolis, they last week mourned the sudden death from heart failure of Samuel Lewis ("Lew") Shank, 55, farm boy, clog dancer, vaudeville trouper, auctioneer and twice mayor of Indianapolis...
...unsolicited praise to Jesse Lasky for the faithful realism with which the air maneuvers were pictured. The audience gulped down the plot as conventional but reliable stuff, watched with waning interest while spinning, swerving, dodging planes grew into confused monotony against a background of unpicturesque ether. Adam and Evil. Lew Cody plays both Adam Trevelyan and Adam's twin brother, Allan. Adam has wealth and a wife (Aileen Pringle); Allan is possessed of liabilities and a gold digger (Gwen Lee). The two women cannot tell the brothers apart, so one woman's husband becomes another woman...