Word: lots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sweetheart Time is, naturally, a musical comedy. It is not a very good musical comedy but that is not unusual. It is not particularly bad, and that too is not unusual. It has a lot of dancing and at least two good tunes, and a few minutes with Harry Kelly here and there that are happily hilarious. The piece is based on an old one of William Collier's called Never Say Die, and relates the adventures of a young man whom the doctors had allotted one more month to live. Said critics: "It is funny...
...Palestinian Room of the Museum may be seen such objects as blocks of rock salt from the mountain at the southern end of the Dead Sea, the region of the story of Lot's wife; specimens of fine, bright-colored stone, such as Solomon may have used in building the Temple; models giving reproductions of the Tabennacle, of the Temple of Solemon, and of the Temple of Herod; tiles from the Tenth Roman Legion stationed at Jerusalem in the first century; hand mills, such as were used by the women of old and are used by the women...
...Mike. A lot of cute animal life, a brood of children and a bunch of hardened males are tumbled together in a story which has bad patches of dullness. It is about a girl who lived in a caboose and cooked for her drunken but hard-working father...
...there have been books written as late as 1925 which have had some humor tucked beneath their sheets. "The Polyglots" had a whole lot--not the Lardner-Witwer-Sherwood-Benchley type, nor even the gentle-professorial-high-and-mighty type--but some real humor. And now someone asks, "What is real humor?" I suppose the best answer, aside from Dr. Cadman's who is now making Brooklyn the Delphi of America--the best answer is silence, since this is not a question and answer column nor is it inspired by the deft delightfulness of syndication. But I have lost...
...Institute of Architects inspected Mrs. Whitney's idea and found it "appalling." They notified the memorial committee that they thought that the monument was "of an architectural style entirely alien to our city and our tradition and . . . inappropriate. The site chosen for it is . . . a corner lot. . . ." Mrs. Whitney's hopes fell. Sculptor Montana went to work on a new opus to be called "The Supreme Sacrifice...