Word: picked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pick Smoker Committee...
...that used to do the dirty work, the villain. He acts no more. As a director, he still believes in dirty work. Greed is taken for Frank Norris's gold-digging story, McTeague, and reeks with realism; Von Stroheim relies on reeking pictures. He makes an actor pick his nose. Von Stroheim relies on reeking pictures. The No. 1 actor is a brute (Gibson Gowland) married to a grasping wife. The final episode of death in the desert carries a brutal film to a brilliantly brutal climax...
...drop of the curtain on the first act, I was surprised to see him calmly pick up a fresh copy of TIME and start in with the very first paragraph; he read during the intermission that ensued, without once stopping. This he repeated at the close of the second and third acts; and I found my curiosity so aroused that I leaned over to see each time what he was reading and how far he had gotten in the magazine. Before the end of the play he had gone half way through tl magazine, his companion quietly passing the time...
...doggerel sometimes. We didn't see the story about the man who took his maiden to "What Price Glory" unsuspectingly, was correspondingly worried as to her reaction, but when she turned to him in the middle of the second act, and, pointing to her pocketbook on the floor, said "Pick up that g--d--n bag" he decided the show was tame for her; but, to complete this rather involved sentence, while we didn't see the story in Lampy, we know it is one of the newest and best, so we feel sure that it is there...
After several weeks more of instruction in the fundamentals of the art, a tournament will be held among the members of the classes to determine the personnel of the Freshman team. Coach J. L. Danguy hopes to be able to pick the team before the Christmas vacation so that practice can be started immediately after the holidays in preparation for the Freshman matches which have been scheduled for the latter part of February and the early part of March...