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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...book is not a biography; it is a moral treatise. The moral is directed to all young men now entering business. " Look at Mr. Curtis," it says on every page. " He started with zero, he was honest, he found business to be a glorious adventure, he made a lot of money. You can do the same! Look at Mr. Curtis! He did it! " How, is never explained...
Miss Stockley's picture of the people in Rhodesia is equally as fine as her description of the land in which they live. They are a group of outcast English men and women; a hard drinking, excitement seeking lot; each of whom is hoping that some day he may dig a golden fortune from the soil. They represent a wide variety of types, and yet on them all the veldt has its spell, and instead of being normal energetic human beings, they are lethargic lovable neerdowell...
...compete with the Mask and Wig and the Triangle--not just yet. But let's entertain. Let's not try to imitate a Shubert revue. Let's jimmy up a show, give everybody a whack at it, get a competent coach, do what he says, and have an awful lot of fun doing it." The proof of the Pudding was the eating last night. It was a little more savory, a great deal smoother, and it contained a great deal more nourishment than the usual pastry. With the assistance of Mr. Silvers and Mr. Schwab, the Hasty Pudding has Taken...
...TIGER'S CLAW.-Among the difficulties through which Jack Holt, American engineer in India, has to wend his unassuming way are a tiger, a half-caste wife, a sweetheart from back home and a lot of "thugs." A dam is well dynamited. The half-caste proves her mettle as a lover...
LOST AND FOUND.-A new South Sea Island was discovered for this picture. True, it is a small one, but it lacks none of the major Polynesianisms. A lot happens on the island, but none of it is particularly significant, because it is hard to get up any particular interest in Captain Blackbird, his kidnapped wife, his two daughters, the shipwrecked hero, or Waki, the villainous villain. The picture was filmed in the islands and the best of it is where the plot is set aside to allow the natives-of both sexes-to do their stuff. There...