Word: papas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Power. The soloist is Richard Dix; the accompanist, Mary Brian, and the main theme based on that good old folksong-how the hero fixed up the heroine's papa's business. This was accomplished by driving the Stoddard tractor over oozy roads in time to arrive at the dam with tons of dynamite before the flood washed out the entire' valley. That "sells" the population on Papa Stoddard's tractors and closes the hero's deal for the heroine's hand. It is the kind of summer orchestration that needs no encore...
...Papa" Joffre is still, in the U. S., "The Hero of the Marne"; but in Paris his strategy has long been the target of savage attacks by military critics. Even such a comparative bystander as the omniscient Winston S. Churchill, Chancellor of the British Exchequer, has taken the trouble to describe good "Papa" Joffre as 'this bullheaded, broad-shouldered, slow-thinking, phlegmatic, bucolic personage...
Does adolescent Signorina Edda Mussolini, 17, call him "papa...
...authorize you to fly at Varese. Many kisses. Your papa...
Seventh Heaven (Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell). Paris of the slums, of sewer cleaners, of War time. In this Paris live Diane the pathetic waif of the streets, Chico, the poet philosopher of the sewers, who takes her to his attic under the stars, Papa Boule who cares for Diane while Chico is fighting les Boches ק all the gay and pathetic characters of Austin Strong's play, as lovable as ever in splendid adaptation. Janet Gaynor as a little creature who believes steadfastly in her bon Dieu, Charles Farrell as blustering, "very remarkable fellow" Chico, are consistently true...