Word: night
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Little Hollis Pifer, 6, and his mother started on a trip one evening last week. At San Francisco they boarded the S. S. San Juan. Next night, Hollis's mother told him, they would be in Los Angeles...
...Night Club. This vapid, badly recorded cabaret revue, introduced without scintillation by Donald Ogden Stewart and composed of flash shots of famous entertainers, of the washroom and a coatrack, has no apparent connection with the story by Katherine Brush from which it is supposed to be taken. To make it long enough for a feature, Director Robert Florey photographed and recorded an audience ceaselessly clapping hands. Worst sound: the henlike cackling of women in the lavabo. The Gamblers (Warner). This picture is a ponderous leer at Wall Street corruption. It has that annoying air of knowingness peculiar to bad parlor...
Sympathizers in the U. S. and Latin America still contribute to Patriot Sandino's support, enable him to occupy the whole top floor of the only modern hotel in Merida, Yucatan. All day the hotel patio teems with sombre-eyed young men carrying pistols, brooding fresh revolt. At night they sleep dormitory fashion around their commander. Asked for an interview, the top-floor patriot sent out a brief message...
...ever likely to receive. Rising to speak before a group of men great in a field of which he has comparatively no knowledge, every one in the house rose with him. This is a custom at all Harvard gatherings, but the percentage of Harvard men in last night's audience was small, as by some magnet attracted, the audience rose to its feet...
Then a sexagenarian came and described how Angèle had come to him for money. And one night the customers at the restaurant exchanged obscene impressions. Now he knew he must be very distasteful to her since, definitely a prostitute, she had turned down only himself. He climbed into her bedroom after midnight, but she was sleeping elsewhere. In the morning he found her, took her to the river bank, twisted her arm to make her admit he disgusted her. She began screaming shrilly in terror and in equal terror he began beating her over the face with a convenient...