Word: odd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Advance predictions give Eli by far the best of the returning material. The seventy-odd candidates for the Blue nine will find only two positions left vacant by graduation, those of Mallory behind the bat and of Captain O'Hearn at first base. The pitching force is especially strong with Captain Pond, Ashburn, and Scott from last year's teams. Practically the entire 1927 team has reported this year...
Salome of the Tenements. The odd contrast of a famed actor and an unknown player losing and failing respectively is the major item in this film's interest. The star is Godfrey Tearle (brother of Conway Tearle), an English actor of the first rank. In pictures, he flattens out and his personality fades. Opposite him is one Jetta Goudal. In her first leading part, she quite steals the strength of the picture. She is small and seems to resemble a combination of Marilyn Miller and Mary Hay. The picture plays about on the East Side (Manhattan) amid the slums...
Also reported: in the House, 304 Masons, 98 Knights of Pythias, 74 Odd Fellows; in the Senate, 65 Masons, 13 Knights, 7 Odd Fellows...
Alexander Woollcott? "So odd and preposterous a blend of Anna Christie and Elsie Dinsmore that one wonders its rehearsals were not dissolved and abondoned in the astonished laughter of the entire company...
...odd and preposterous blend of Anna Christie and Elsie Dinsmore...