Word: lots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Penrod and Sam. Time was when child actors were received with hysterical applause if they were any better than downright offensive. Along came Jackie Coogan. Now child actors are a requisite on every movie lot in California. Why? Because they are adapted to a type of entertainment which is faintly damned by the adjective "wholesome...
...plot concerns a band of crooks who pretend to be Hindu mystics to swindle Vivienne Segal out of her jewels?which gives opportunity for one gorgeous stage-set and a lot of music full of temple-bells and incense-smells and the rest of the allure of the East as known to a Broadway orchestra...
Sherlock Holmes and his ilk rank Eros and Deadshot Dalton ranks the lot. The girls are more tender. Love stories are their first choice, comedies second, society life as known to the De Mille brothers third, and then come the Westerns. Serials, tragedies and stories " with sad endings " are out of favor with both sexes. And they just hate, or at least they say they do, the custard pie varieties of comedy, over-mushy yarns and films that are brutal or untrue to life...
...Marquis Curzon: "In a speech in London I denounced the modern craze for digging up skulls and bones and declared that the antiquaries had gone mad. I protested especially against the excavation of a church yard at Gravesend where ' a lot of ghouls' are trying to find the body of Pocahontas, supposedly buried there...
Harry Wills, Negro fighter, who has knocked out Sam Langford, Sam McVey, Fred Fulton: " I'm black all right, but I've lived a lot whiter than the majority of white fighters now in the ring. No one can deny that I've fought every one selected for me. I don't play the cabarets and I've never been in court on any charge, but what has it got me ? One thing you can be sure of. If I were champion tomorrow, I'd be just as unassuming and peaceful...