Word: manly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rainbow Man (Sono-Art). A new, independent producing company has probably fulfilled its intention of building a box-office success on the Jazz Singer formula around Minstrel Eddie Dowling. When Dowling's pal, an acrobat, is dying after a fall from a trapeze, he promises to take care of the acrobat's little boy and keeps his promise through some amusing and a number of saccharine episodes, a love affair, and recurrent Irish-tenor melodies. Best shot: the audience in the Arcadia Opera House. Best song: "Sleepy Valley...
...make it vocal. The best singing is done in a prolog, related to the text only by its tunes, in which Helen Morgan, whose voice is later apparently heard issuing from the lips of Laura La Plante, sings "My Bill" and "I Can't Help Lovin' That Man." Of the progress of the showboat, Cotton Palace, down the river, Director Harry Pollard has made a picturesque, oldfashioned, tedious melodrama, full of conventional photography and exaggerated acting. Magnolia (Laura La Plante), an awkward young woman with a long jaw, elopes with Gaylord Ravenal (Joseph Schildkraut) in a rowboat. Later...
Before You're 25. "If a man isn't a socialist sometime before he's 25," says Playwright Kenyon Nicholson, "he has no heart. If he is a socialist after he's 25 he has no head." In this Nicholson play, Clement Corbin, son of a wealthy Chicagoan, has a heart, a radical magazine called The Torch, a baby born en route through Indiana, the baby's mother, no marriage certificate. He is a determined socialist. How his family and would-be wife combine to make him marry and drop The Torch for a furniture...
...very worst, that notable achievement, set forth in a voluminous report, will crown the labors of Mr. Morgan and Mr. Young. Said a member of the Japanese delegation when things looked blackest last week, "I am deeply sorry for our chairman. Mr. Young has done everything a man could possibly do to make for success. It is a shame that his wonderful work should be branded with defeat. He deserved something far, far better!" Allied Bulls Baited. The offer made by Dr. Schacht, which seemed to brand FAILURE upon all concerned last week, was in fact a pair of alternatives...
...intolerable conditions among the starving miners (TIME, Feb. 11). "It is thanks to him and his example," said Mr. Cook, "that I am able to come here without contaminating any one of you [Tories]. His conduct and attitude have shown that all mankind has qualities in common, one man with every other. He has proved to the miner and his wife and children that in this moment of great suffering they are not forgotten...