Word: playing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which was mere by-play to fill an idle hour, because the Tycoons all declined their invitations, except Henry Ford, who toyed with the idea as a public possibility longer than the rest...
...Budget Director (1921-22). To limit expenses, most of the Commissioners paid their own bills. Santo Domingo will be billed only $10,000 for the job, which will require from three to six weeks. No Commissioner took a golf club, fishing tackle or a valet. Work, not play, was ahead of them. Budgetman Dawes, in fine fettle, wore a brown striped suit, a brown hat. The smell of his pipe led all visitors directly to his cabin. That newspapers kept referring to his nephew, Rufus C. Beach, Chicago attorney now on the Dominican Commission, as "Rupert Peach" caused him vast...
...Trial of Mary Dugan (Metro Goldwyn Mayer). Once more the unity of time and scene and the concentration of dialog made possible by a courtroom play have been utilized in an effective sound-picture. The story, adapted without alteration from a recent stage success, and directed by the author, Bayard Veiller, concerns a showgirl, who is tried for the murder of her lover and is defended by her brother, a lawyer. Best shot?Norma Shearer telling how she paid for her brother's education...
...battered old Stanley Cup, emblematic of the hockey championship, passed to the Boston Bruins last week when they defeated the New York Rangers in the final play-off series, in two straight games. The Bruins had won the American section league championship and defeated Les Canadiens, Canadian section champions. The Rangers in two play-off series defeated the New York Americans and the Toronto Maple Leafs, then lost to the Bruins...
...Mapleson commits perjury in the Coroner's Court and saves her husband. But the remorseful fellow insists on babbling about his sins to his wife and begging her forgiveness. Disgusted, she explains to him her diabolical philosophy of security. Then Jim Mapleson crawls off and shoots himself. The play peters out in a subplot...