Word: missing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Miss Tucker's personal appearance, so like what one is led to expect from her phonograph records, is that of cheerful, pleasant artist, who enjoys what she does...
...picture goes on at 7 and 9.45 o'clock promptly. It is advisable to go at these times only in order to miss the atrocious stage show...
Drab, and more acidly Mercuric was Miss Brossow's paper: "Our family was . . . poor as Job's turkey . . . on a farm in what was then the backwoods in Central Wisconsin." To get enough money to go to college she did housework in Kenosha. "Arriving at Northland, I was sadly disappointed (in the buildings) . . . it is rather an honor to work one's own way than otherwise. . . . I have gotten everything out of college but a job. . . . I am financially embarrassed . . . I wonder, have I truly completed my college career 'with honor...
...return the first ace. This small, brown Czechoslovakian, who punctuates his game with little whirls of annoyance, and expansive, contagious moments of triumph, has revived the prestige of the backcourt game. Keeping the ball in the corners, he rarely tries for kills but scores by making the other fellow miss. His trick of taking the crowd into his confidence with jokes and bits of pantomime has the double effect of drawing attention to himself and upsetting his antagonists; he is intensely superstitious, wears two good luck medals around his neck, and has embroidered on all his sweaters the talismanic image...
...long shiny car picks up Dorothy Mackaill she tells him she lives on Fifth Avenue and gives him the number of a house that as inevitably happens in these cases turns out to be his own. Hard to Get does not rise to any heights of originality in keeping Miss Mackaill from becoming mistress of this house but its photography is smart. Best shots: The Martin family at home...