Word: oles
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Vitaphone and The Better 'Ole (Syd Chaplin). While Al Jolson mouths "Mammy, Mammy" on the screen, the audience hears Al Jolson throat "Mammy, Mammy" out of what sounds like a loud radio. It is the Vitaphone, now well on its way to fame as purveyor of "canned" music to theatres too small to afford orchestras. After the same slightly harsh, but perfectly synchronized reproduction of Reinald Werrenrath, Elsie Janis, and The Howards, Syd Chaplin proceeds to ramble through a long string of war comics in a film, The Better 'Ole, based on Cartoonist Bruce Bairnsfather's characterization...
...Ederle sat on deck, chatting comfortably to Thomas Burgess (trainer), Helmi (Egyptian swimmer), Miss Cannon (another U. S. Channel aspirant) and one Timson (Boston swimmer). In the bow was a brass band. On the tug's side was a great white arrow with the legend, "This Way, Ole Kid." The band played The Star-Spangled Banner. Miss Ederle responded from the water. She swam the first four miles in three hours and had a drink of beef juice. The band played Yes, We HAVE No Bananas. Miss Cannon got into the water and swam for an hour; Miss Ederle...
...gravely lighted the 3,000 elegants in hoop-skirts and tight trousers who danced there one memorable night (Oct. 12, 1860) under the eyes of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales? upon the stage where Patti sang, where Modjeska triumphed, where Edwin Booth, Salvini, Lawrence Barrett, John McCullough, Campanini, Ole Bull, sang or spoke or played, white-haired Otis Skinner, actor, made a little speech. He spoke well, with that fine courtliness, which distinguishes actors and field marshals in old age. But the people in the stalls and boxes did not need to hear him; they too could have said everything...
...just like it on a meagre street. Their mother was out getting the groceries; she hoped they would not quarrel while she was gone, but at that very moment Mary, piqued by an injustice, was twisting her small face in derision of her brother. "Monkey," she squealed, "you ole monkey!" Peter glowered, as he had seen them do in the movies. He knew how to avenge an insult. He went to his father's bureau, climbed up on a chair, took an automatic from the top drawer, shot his sister dead. Said he: "I am sorry...
...Bill in "The Better 'Ole", Ko-Ko in the "Mikado", and his present role as Lutz in the "Student Prince", Mr. Hopper declared were probably the most interesting characters of the many that he has portrayed...