Word: metropolitanism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Metropolitan, continuous-"Beggars of Life" with Wallace Beery and Louise Brooks. Tramp, Tramp, the hobooes are coming to town...
...Smith's conciliation policy will restore the United States to the good graces of foreign powers-long lost through Republican assininity."-Haley Fiske, president of the Metropolitan Life Insurance...
Sued for Divorce. Giulio Gatti-Casazza, famed hirsute & diplomatic impresario of the Metropolitan Opera Company of Manhattan; by Frances Alda, dusky soprano; after 18 years of wedded life...
...idea of the Religious Film Trust won quick approval: to retell biblical stories in pictures with mechanical word & music accompaniment; to make sound-pictures of famed metropolitan ministers in action; to present such sound-picture programs in churches, Sunday schools and other religious assembly halls...
That Charles Wakefield Cadman was considering the cinemas came as surprising news. He writes orthodox music; the Metropolitan Opera produced his Shanewis. His principal resemblance to Composers Berlin and Gershwin is in his face: the three men have aqueline, bony faces, high foreheads, strong jaws. Musically, the three are scattered. The two Jews write so that people sing their songs. Cadman, although by no means profound, writes for listeners. The Gershwins and Berlin are in the market places, night clubs; he in the parlor and concert hall. Berlin is admittedly no musician. But Gershwin is. And both are nimble tumblejacks...