Word: packed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA-Wherewith the Theatre Guild opened their new playhouse. No better than it should be and yet in the van of the present pack...
...Supreme Moment. A title like this will pack them into the cinema theatre, people say. Certain types of minds would walk a mile to stay away from it. Unfortunately, these latter lose. With Blanche Sweet acting her exceptional best, the entertainment is a better than average sample. She plays an actress with whom a man in the audience falls in love. Off they go to South America, where she poses as his sister. Intrigue, native rising and a final happiness unravel. Two stretches of brilliant color film help considerably...
...English actor and a German city, became known to the public as Irving Berlin. For the last ten years, he has written a national anthem a year. His prodigality has never been approached and he has written at least three songs?Alexander's Ragtime Band, Everybody Step, Pack Up Your Sins? which "no Broadway composer has ever surpassed," says Critic Carl Van Vechten. Berlin, a pioneer in ragtime, was perhaps the first white man who noticeably impressed his talent upon the music of the Negro?the first to score dark jungle jingles, canniballets, revivalisteria for the Anglo-Saxophone...
...Hindenburg has become a forgotten myth, since he has entered the political field. The staunchest of Germany's militarists, the victor of Tannenberg and a hundred lesser battles, remains no longer silent and aloof among the great field-marshalls of Germany. Today he is be-leaguered by the political pack which helps and snarls at his heels...
...chapel service, a spokesman addressed Dr. McKenzie, declared that he must reinstate the five, or all Fisk students would "strike". Dr. McKenzie refused to budge from his decision. A solemn ballot was taken ; a large percentage of the undergraduates voted to withdraw from the Uni- versity. Some hurried to pack their trunks; some loitered, talking excitedly, in the streets of Nashville; some composed a telegram to Lawyer Cravath...