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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more harm than good. He wouldn't stay hitched. You might send him after the cows and he might take a gun and shoot the farmer's pigs instead. I never saw anybody who could get away with a hand-to-hand encounter with a skunk. I don't mean to call Mr. Shearer a skunk...
...simple sounding statement, to be sure, but one which taken in its larger aspects will mean more to football followers in general than any since the adoption of the oblong ball...
...dinner shirt, Erich von Stroheim keeps his round, bristle-covered head unbowed under bludgeonings written for him by Ben Hecht. He is in love with the girl who helps him in his act. Off stage he cannot tell her what he feels - something makes him abuse her and act mean, but in the act he throws his voice into the dummy and lets it express his love. The imagery giving power to this anecdote was certainly apparent to von Stroheim. He started out to act it stiffly and gloomily, making you feel the knot in the head...
...Voice-the one on the left-mean and pretty hateful-kept calling...
...chucked it"-all the time he had let himself yield to soft, narcotic impulses in preference to harder, more tonic impulses-all the softness he had ever let form within himself-all that had waited till then to come back on him. That had been the one Voice; the mean hateful...