Word: night
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...originality, the Bremen's designers gave her below the water line somewhat the shape of a falling raindrop; but above the water line her bow ceases to be bulbous, is keen as a bayonet edge. Luxury features of the Bremen include a street of arcaded shops; an all-night night club called The Astoria; and an optional Ritz Restaurant, where first class passengers may pay extra for a la carte food. First class Bremen tickets cost $315 up-"Highest minimum rate on the Atlantic...
...Broadway Nights. The Brothers Shubert, playing an infallible system which calls for sprigs of vaudeville and bouquets of decoration, find it profitable to keep at least two musical shows going at once. No sooner had their Pleasure Bound closed than they prepared Broadway Nights to companion their A Night in Venice. If a blindfolded playgoer were ushered into one, then permitted to look, he might easily mistake it for the other...
Producers ignore Equity. They feel that Hollywood's night labor and freakish habits are elements in a new industry which Equity cannot be expected to understand, which have been justified by that industry's prosperity. Director Lionel Barrymore likened Equity's campaign to a major operation on a child...
...picturemaking. Long research has proved that there are two ways in which the shaken fellow can be redeemed: 1) by the return of his original partner; 2) by another girl in the company who has loved him all the time but whose sacrifices have never been appreciated until the night when, as he lies drunk, she takes his place on the tightrope. Dangerous Curves employs Solution No. 2. Clara Bow gets the kiss in the fadeout. She is a better actress than her usual It-girl role would lead you to expect, but in most of her scenes...
...opposite Patsy Ruth Miller, supported by a good cast. The story is one of those anecdotes generally used as a framework for the less profitable shows of minor burlesque circuits. Miss Miller's frustrated ambition to sleep in a bed beside her husband's on her wedding night might have been funny in spite of everything but for the dialog-line after awkward line recited in singsong and divided from the next by little fences of silence. Twin Beds is partially redeemed by one tune, "If You Were Mine" and by a few seconds of Zasu Pitts...