Word: picnics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Twelve swart women wrapped in garish blankets squatted around a picnic ground on the bank of the Arkansas River near Kaw, Okla. Five old men the color of tanbark squatted in the middle of the clearing, balancing a broad tom-tom on their crossed feet...
...George, Edward of Wales, Ferdinand Foch, Raquel Meller, Beatrice Lillie, Vatican Choir, Calvin Coolidge, Charles Augustus Lindbergh, John Joseph ("Black Jack") Pershing. Movietone has also produced two excellent comedies: Funnyman Robert Benchley (of Life) in The Treasurer's Report and a piece of suburban folklore called The Family Picnic.* In these, the conversation and the accompanying action-noises run without interruption through the entire film. Many critics believe that comedies and news features are the only entertaining vehicles for the talkies. In full-length drama-films, Movietone uses synchronized orchestra accompaniment, occasional songs, but no spoken dialog. Vitaphone...
...Globe Theatre in Manhattan, The Family Picnic is included in the same program with Mr. Shaw's talkie and Dolores Del Rio's The Red Dance (see THE NEW PICTURES). Few better programs are to be found anywhere...
...humid, but happy Houston. Discord waned. Celebrities furnished the atmosphere of a glorified picnic instead of a political dogfight...
...most famed Smith learned that 10,000 persons named Smith were forming a Smith Association, planning a Smith picnic in St. Louis for mid-July...