Word: mightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...adaptation in no way decreases the merit of the selection, but, on the contrary, any other manner of presentation, for in stance, the classical, would have completely altered the charm of the theme. Then, too, you must, consider that Gershwin speaks well only in a jazz vein and he might have meased things up if he had attempted to do anything so far out of his line as to do anything in a classical...
Last week the first issue of Life under Norman Anthony's editorship appeared. As far as it resembled the Life of 1928, this new year might as well be Anno Domini...
...Cesare Borgia for his sister, Lucrecia, is perfumed to meet censorship requirements by making him her cousin. This change and the reason for it are naively explained in a foreword to the U. S. edition of the production, which was made by a German company in Rome. It might, at slight expense, have been made in Hollywood, for nothing much is done with Roman street scenes and most of the best shots are interiors. Conrad Veidt, in armor, dies after a broadsword fight with his sister's third husband...
...Thirteen years his senior, she pampered him with parties, and medicines, and peacocks screeching on the terrace; and in his gratitude Disraeli forgot her social gaucheries, forgave her boast that Greek sculpture paled before "my Dizzy in his bath." Meanwhile Mrs. Gladstone was relieving her lord that he might deal with Ireland and Egypt and the Liberal Party while she answered lesser demands: "Could you order some toothbrushes cheap for the Orphanage . . . grapes for Mrs. Bagshawe . . . Bible prints . . . schoolroom easels...
...attention. Accordingly, last week, Anne Nichols, asking $3,000,000, was in court to sue Universal Pictures Corp. for plagiarism. The trial proceeded in the higgly-piggly fashion of plagiarism suits, with interminable memorabilia, mentions of long-forgotten vaudeville skits and old plays from which The Cohens and Kellys might possibly have been derived. Some Universal adman had written an advertisement in which The Cohens and Kellys had been called "another Abie's Irish Rose." This was discussed. Universal discredited the advertisement...