Word: playing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last of Mrs. Cheyney (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Frederick Lonsdale's comedy of the woman who gets into society so that her criminal associates can steal pearls depends less on plot and more on dialog than most plays of its type. It is satirical, sentimental, witty. It set, in its season, a new fashion in drawing-room drama. It is as effective as a talking picture as it was on the legitimate stage. Although the manuscript has been followed so closely that if you look sharp you can catch in the picture the momentary pauses that marked the play...
William Fox, cinemagnate, was on his way to play golf last month when his automobile smashed up, injuring him, killing his chauffeur (TIME, July 29). Last week, fully recovered, Film-man Fox played his first game of golf since emerging from the hospital. At the 17th hole, 150 yards across water, he cocked his eye, waggled his club, swung with precision and, for the third time in his career, holed his tee shot. Said he, modest: "Of course, I know that all three have been a matter of luck...
When a boy-child makes Solomon's temple out of blocks, then sets it afire, or pours water over the red carpet to turn the wheel of his mill, what can grandmother do but send him out to play...
...Piano. In the baggage room of the Graf Zeppelin on her westward trip this year (TIME, Aug. 12) was a grand piano. In the salon was Pianist Gregoire Gourevitch. He thought it would be appropriate to play Wagner's opus picturing the Valkyries' ride above the clouds while his audience was similarly situated. As the piano did not fit into the Zeppelin's salon, Pianist Gourevitch and the Valkyries had to wait for his concert last week in Manhattan's Savoy-Plaza Hotel...
...Nevertheless, the A. F. of M. heartily approved the formation in Manhattan last week of Judson Radio Program Corp., an organization of six orchestras, small and large, serious and syncopated, which absorbed 200 jobless to play into the public ear via mechanical radio...