Word: palmed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cutler takes us up to the prewar days and opens the door upon collegiate revels, and paints the high society of Boston, New York, and Palm Beach in the most elaborate colors. Intimate glimpses are also afforded of the financial machinery of Wall Street, and we are introduced to the calculating type of German Jew in the business world. The change that came over all orioles of society when war was finally declared is admirably portrayed, for Mr. Cutler succeeds in reproducing the spirit that existed in the home, the training camps and the field...
Seward Prosser, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bankers Trust Company, Manhattan: "I missed a trip to Palm Beach in order to act in the movies with Dwight W. Morrow and Thomas W. Lament of J. P. Morgan & Co. The picture was for the benefit of the Englewood Hospital, so we did our best to register anxiety about the finances of the baby ward...
...either the beautiful Broadway butterfly, Dorothy King; the rich and socially prominent "angel" and man of mystery, John Mitchell; the dark and debonnaire South American cave man, Guimares; the tragic mother, Mrs. Keenan; the crafty sleuths hot on the scent of the blackmailing murderer; the poor, humiliated wife in Palm Beach; or even the colored maid, Billie Bradford, discreet and loyal confidant of the white beauty and her "important" lover...
...first saw actual service in the Philippines during the insurrection in 1899. For 10 months he was on front-line duty, directing his troops in the Aisne-Marne, St. Mihiel, and Meuse-Argonne offensives; and for meritorious service the French government awarded him the Croix de Guerre with Palm and made him a Commander of the Legion of Honor. He was relieved from active duty the first of this year...
...kidnapped wife, his two daughters, the shipwrecked hero, or Waki, the villainous villain. The picture was filmed in the islands and the best of it is where the plot is set aside to allow the natives-of both sexes-to do their stuff. There is a lot of atmosphere-palm trees and Wak-Waks, and Fatu-liva eggs bounding about the screen...