Word: needed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...fellow who was making advances to his wife. As soon as he is free a truck hurts Davy Lee and the wandering story that is a framework for his sob is washed out again with a flood of tears. Jolson sings well, although without burnt cork, which he really needs, such ditties as "Little Pal" and an old one, "Back in Your Own Back Yard." The rest of the numbers will need a lot of plugging to make you remember them. Best shot: Marion Nixon telling Jolson what the manager proposed to her. Silliest shot: a doctor refusing to operate...
...Moment (First National). Billie Dove re-establishes an oldtime tenet of picturemaking, to the effect that if an actress is good-looking enough she does not need to have stories written for her or to know how to act. Elinor Glyn was hired to make up some thing about a bride who gets out of her husband's stateroom on the wedding morning, but the plot is halfhearted, as though its famed authoress were conscious that her fatuities were required simply for the sake of convention. It is a picture for people who like love on yachts and among...
...indivisible whole," declared that to be workable it must be adopted in toto as drafted. Last week the declaration of a Morgan, a Young, a Schacht was simply sneered at by Laborite Snowden. In homely Yorkshire fashion he referred to the Young Plan as a "sponge cake" in need of being recarved. For Britain a bigger piece of sponge cake...
Jiddu Krishnamurti, "World Teacher," announced the dissolution of the Order of the Star in the East, theosophical brotherhood founded in India in 1910. He explained: "The Truth needs no disciples. It wants nothing from any man. Only a few will understand, and they need no organization...
...night club man, explained how he became engaged to Clara Bow, cinema "It" girl (TIME, July 22). Said he: "I got tough with her. Instead of saying yes I said what I pleased and won the greatest little girl that ever lived." Next day Cinemactress Bow snapped: "When I need a boss, I'll put an advertisement in the paper." She said she was not at all sure about the engagement...