Word: oneness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Song of Love (Columbia). An exposure of the difficulties of backstage motherhood reaches its denouement when one Buddy Gibson (David Durand) surprises both the cinematic and the actual audience by singing the theme song, "Take
...some houses last week without a title in the firesign, being indicated simply as "Clara Bow's Latest." The Saturday Night Kid is a better product than such emphasis on its star's drawing-power seems to imply. Although the plot is composed of such familiar elements as one sister's sacrifices for another who repays her by stealing her clothes and her fiance's affections, it is effective because it gives the well-made, impetuous Miss Bow a part that suits her. Between sentimental passages the routine of a great U. S. department store is lustily though clumsily satirized...
...Kiss (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Greta Garbo is in this one. It is silent, yet its climax takes place in the locale that sound pictures have dealt with more successfully than any other?a murder trial. Garbo's brilliance as one more misunderstood wife is alone responsible for the crowds that lined up a block long to see it in cities where it was shown last week. Her husband is older than she. She kills him when he is pummeling a boy who tried to kiss her. Her lawyer, who is her real lover, convinces the jury that her husband committed...
...Other living Emerson descendants: One son. Edward Waldo Emerson of Concord, Mass., biographer and physician. Two grandsons: Edward Waldo Forbes, director of Harvard's Fogg Museum: Dr. Alexander Forbes, member of the faculty of Harvard Medical School...
...reports of miraculous cures increased in number if not in clarity. One Louis Hanover begged more than $100 from the sympathetic crowd, flung down his crutches on the grave, cried out that he was cured, ran away. The policemen caught him, discovered his alias was Samuel Cohen. He was sent to the work farm for four months. Anna Bellard of Adams, Mass., made out an affidavit at the cemetery office saying she had walked and talked for the first time in five years. Twelve-year-old Rita Averman of Manhattan, blind since infancy, thought she saw light and moving shapes...