Word: olds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rushing in his car toward Angora the Ghazi saw that it was true. Jutting high above a dusty plain is the ruined citadel of Angora. The "Fish Bazaar," the old section of the town, known to modern Turks as the pest section, straggles down from the summit of the rock to the bleak modern city at its base. Up the rock now, as the Ghazi gazed, leaped crackling flames, lighting up the plain. For hours the Ghazi worked shoulder to shoulder with firemen, policemen, soldiers. The acrid smoke of burning buildings mingled with the smell of burning fish. By morning...
Which Would Win? The occidental who knows most about which side might win a Chino-Russian war is hard-boiled "Major General" Frank Sutton. He used to be chief military advisor to rapacious, barbaric old Manchurian War Lord Chang Tso-lin, father of the present Governor-Dictator of Manchuria, Chang Hsueh-Liang. Since Old Chang waged most of his wars from Mukden-and finally died there when his armored train was dynamited-the doughty General Sutton knows every inch of Manchuria's prospective battlefields and also the calibre and equipment of Chinese and Russian troops. Sought out in London...
Asked about Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang-son of his old employer, Marshal Chang Tso-lin-General Sutton meaningly said: "His qualities as a strategist remain to be seen. If they are anything like his father's Russia will not find victory so easy to attain...
...dialog, written by Clare Kummer, is civilized. The settings are beautiful; the cast, bought from the legitimate theatre and including Marguerite Churchill and Kenneth MacKenna, takes pains with its material. The result is tedious because the medium is still too crude for the effect attempted. You sorely miss the old-fashioned bathos of those pictures which tried hard, however ineptly, to make you cry or wriggle with excitement. Typical shots: Frederick Graham, cinema's best butler, bringing Captain Dean (Kenneth MacKenna) the roses a philandering polo player has sent up for Mrs. Dean...
Piccadilly (British). People who liked The Old Wives' Tale may be startled at the idea of Arnold Bennett writing a film for Gilda Gray. And people who liked the Follies of 1922 may think it odd that Shimmy-Dancer Gray would appear in a story by Litterateur Bennett. Yet there is nothing in the collaboration to wonder at. Having made her name with her hips, with increasing maturity Miss Gray now takes acting seriously, while Mr. Bennett, having begun with masterpieces, now writes pamphlets on health, testimonials for advertising and sentimental stories for the Saturday Evening Post. This Gray...