Word: placing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ways in which the shaken fellow can be redeemed: 1) by the return of his original partner; 2) by another girl in the company who has loved him all the time but whose sacrifices have never been appreciated until the night when, as he lies drunk, she takes his place on the tightrope. Dangerous Curves employs Solution No. 2. Clara Bow gets the kiss in the fadeout. She is a better actress than her usual It-girl role would lead you to expect, but in most of her scenes she is not trying to act so much as to suggest...
...Oppressed (French). Never at her best even in the comparative intimacy of a theatre because she needs a smaller place, a cabaret where she can count on every inflection of her face and voice, Raquel Meller acts like a phantom for the camera's phantom audience. Her gestures are uncertain and stylized, yet she does not seem to be a phantom of herself but of some other actress, perhaps Bernhardt, perhaps Duse. Bernhardt made a cinema 17 years ago that was a good deal like this.* It was a costume drama too, and even with the experimental craftsmanship...
This Mary did, so successfully and with such persistence and missionary zeal that the two returned from Europe as man and wife. Soon Mary Victoria was pregnant, too, but that did not prevent Welding from deserting her "to find a place where there are high mountains and snows that never melt and nothing else except loneliness." Mary Victoria remained with her father because, "even though I have lost love, I may become a power for good in the life of my child." Milly went to New York on the trail of "something worth loving...
...National League has a more hectic race, with Pittsburgh and Chicago popping in and out of first place. Last year's Champion, the St. Louis Club, is a poor fourth, mostly through collapse of the pitching staff. The New York "Giants" are third but here again the common ailment of poor pitching has been a grave handicap. Pitcher Grimes, whose fine work has held up the Pittsburgh Club, last week had his thumb dislocated by a fast liner. If he is long on the bench, the Chicago Club should be the next champion. Outstanding Chicagoans are Infielder Rogers Hornsby...
Died. Charles Forepaugh, 91, of West Berlin, N. J., oldtime circus man (Fore-paugh's Aggregation, Forepaugh & Sells Bros.), "first trainer to place his head in a lion's mouth" (1874); in West Berlin...