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...while the scenario promises to translate into film the same pic turesque fierceness. At one moment, it achieves a truly inspired version of the play's own irony; the marines march off to their first baptism of hellfire; Charmaine (Dolores Del Rio) waves good-bye to her Captain Flagg, not with the tricolor of France nor the stars and stripes of the U. S., but with the bedclothes. After this highpoint (which, to be frank seems to have been reached by accident) the scenario settles down some banal sob hokum about ' mother's boy," equally unfortunate comic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Dec. 6, 1926 | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

...games of the Leiter Cup series scheduled for yesterday resulted as follows: No Names 6. Pic Faces 2; Stewed Prunes 14, Holyoke Heights 5; Grinds 10. Hustlers 0; Boers 9. Incognitos 0 (by default). Since neither team appeared, the game scheduled between the Strollers and Hell-O-Go-Damns was not played...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leiter Cup Games. | 5/5/1903 | See Source »

...Club, the well-known New York organization, is engaged in a war of words with the Pastime Athletic Club of the same city. The latter club holds its annual sports to-morrow, and the M. A. A. has forbidden any of its members to enter what it stigmatizes as "pic-nic games." The games promise to be very successful, as a large number of the leading New York athletes have entered, and the M. A. A. is having several of its members resign on account of its action...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 6/8/1888 | See Source »

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