Word: playing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Adolph Lewisohn's firm belief that good music not only pleases summer enthusiasts, but reduces crime. A reformer of prisons, he collects rare Bibles, impressionistic paintings. He likes to play cards, to win, to sing, to dance...
...will play in Hollywood's Bowl next fortnight...
...nurse's 13-hr, record was typical of the heart's variations. When she listened to music her heart beat 98.6, its fastest. At supper it slowed to 82.5. Preparing to play cards sent the rate up; playing let it go down. Preparing for bed jumped it; turning the lights out lowered it. As she dropped into sleep the rate wobbled...
...Fellows is a farce which might be enjoyed in remote farming sections where boredom sometimes inspires families to exchange husbands and wives. That is the plot of Bed-Fellows. The switch is legally accomplished, but the play's title is, of course, never realized. Such things may happen but you cannot stage them. After much raucous effort at humor and suspense, Bed-Fellows ends where it began, without a single inventive fillip to distinguish it from a score of other mediocrities...
...Australia, it was being insisted that U. S. talking cinema producers should give Raycophone, Australian talking mechanism fair play in competition with U. S.-made talking mechanisms...