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Word: lila (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...picture and a very good one, it presents Mr. Meighan in the new role of detective, and he proves himself quite efficient in solving the famous Argyle murder, doing it in a way that will delight any lover of mystery. He is ably supported by H. B. Warner and Lila...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 10/16/1929 | See Source »

...airbase at Pensacola, Fla., and perfect synchronization of dialog and martial sounds make this a very exciting picture. The illusion of reality is strong when the theatre reverberates with roaring airplanes, staccato machine guns. Ralph Graves is a vacillating, blundering flyer who girds up his loins to win Lila Lee. Jack Holt, somewhat aged since his svelte days with the cinema mounted police, is a tough sergeant. Into the picture creeps propaganda about the U. S. |occupation of Nicaragua, especially when the Nicaraguan president is shown talking about U. S. good-Samaritanism. Best shot: The squadron taking off at dawn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Sep. 23, 1929 | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

...allowed to forget that her grown son, whom she has not seen for years, will presently turn up and be accused, at the moment he is recognized by her, of a murder committed by someone else. Feeble directing of these elements is compensated chiefly by the beautiful legs of Lila Lee as a night club entertainer. Best shot: Texas Guinan asking for a hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Mar. 25, 1929 | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...brief, the stories are like body-punches from a bully-boy with chunky arms: how Denna Wyoming, the Negro lion-tamer, got chewed up by the blind brown bear; how Lila, the strong woman, died lovelorn, and had the calliope and elephant cage for her funeral; how John Quincy Adams, a Negro clown, got bathed with boiling tar. Sometimes the bully-boy stops punching to strew around some casual obscenities; sometimes he just reflects, idly, wistfully, comically. At all times his book is as close to life as a stake-driver's undershirt. Admirers of realism, and Americana, must roundly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Sportsman | 8/8/1927 | See Source »

Metropolitan--"The New Klondike," with Thomas Meighan and Lila...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOARDS AND BILLBOARDS | 3/16/1926 | See Source »

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